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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one form of writing the narrator of Awkward would like to write?
(a) A comedy.
(b) A screenplay.
(c) A Gothic novel.
(d) A tragedy.

2. What does the rhyming slang replace in Rhyming Slang?
(a) Nouns.
(b) Adverbs.
(c) Adjectives.
(d) Verbs.

3. How does the narrator describe the bus conductor in Reactionary?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Large.
(d) Surly.

4. What sense is the focus of Auditory?
(a) Taste.
(b) Smell.
(c) Sight.
(d) Hearing.

5. What is true about the words used in More or Less?
(a) The letters are out of order in each word.
(b) They are real words.
(c) They are written in random order.
(d) They are made-up words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound is interjected throughout Parechesis?

2. How does the narrator of Reactionary describe the man's friend when he sees them later?

3. What animal describes the young man in Portrait?

4. What variation is Consequences replacing in Exercises in Style?

5. What is one characteristic of Philosophic?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the variation "For Ze Frrensh" considered comical? Why is this variation put in place of "Poor lay Zanglay" in the English version of Exercises in Style?

2. Why do you think the author includes the variation "Feminine?"

3. What is a haiku and how is it used in Exercises in Style?

4. Explain how the basic story is changed in "Antiphrasis."

5. Why do you think the author writes a separate variation for each of the five senses?

6. Explain how "Ode" is different from the rest of the variations.

7. Why do you think the author includes the variation "Interjections?"

8. What elements of the variation "Spectral" make it gothic?

9. What affect does "Proper Noun" create by replacing common nouns with proper names?

10. What makes the variation "Abusive" so confrontational?

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