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

2. How is the bus identified in Proper Names?
(a) Josephine.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Leo.
(d) Derby.

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

4. What literary form is Free Verse?
(a) Short story.
(b) Essay.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Play.

5. How is the bus described in Visual?
(a) Hard and cold, like ice.
(b) Low and rumbling, like approaching thunder.
(c) Green.
(d) Metallic-tasting, like a fork.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sense is the focus of Olfactory?

2. What is one characteristic of Philosophic?

3. How is the bus described in Tactile?

4. What does the narrator of Biased notice about the nearby passengers?

5. What animal describes the young man in Portrait?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast "Back Slang" and "Dog Latin."

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

3. What is apostrophe in literature? How is it used in the variation "Apostrophe?"

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

5. Why are the variations in Section 8 put together?

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

7. Explain how the author can write the variation "Gustatory" without tasting anything that happens in the story?

8. Explain the variation "Reactionary," and why it is titled "Reactionary."

9. Explain the variation "Consequences."

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

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