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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. According to the narrator of Awkward, what is the most difficult part of writing the story?
(a) The denouement.
(b) The transition.
(c) The climax.
(d) The exposition.

2. Who is revealed to be the young man's friend in Unexpected?
(a) George.
(b) Albert.
(c) Theodore.
(d) Robert.

3. What makes Prosthesis difficult to read?
(a) Letters omitted from the ends of the words.
(b) Letters added to the middles of words.
(c) Letters added to the ends of the words.
(d) Letters added to the beginnings of the words.

4. What is the age of the narrator in Reactionary?
(a) Older.
(b) Middle-aged.
(c) A child.
(d) Younger.

5. How is the man's neck described in Gustatory?
(a) Rather sourish.
(b) Rather long.
(c) Rather normal.
(d) Rather unusual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tinges the hat's plaited cord in Gustatory?

2. What is one form of writing the narrator of Awkward would like to write?

3. How does the narrator of Feminine describe the man's friend?

4. What is one characteristic of Parts of Speech?

5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of Sonnet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might the variation "More or Less" be easier to read aloud?

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

3. Why do you think the author ends Exercises in Style with the variation "Unexpected?"

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

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

6. What makes the narrator in the variation "Biased" a biased narrator?

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

8. What does the author do to the basic story in the variation "Parts of Speech?"

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

10. Why does Raymond Queneau include variations containing unintelligible words and phrases, such as in the "Permutations" variations?

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