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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about Litotes?

2. How is the man's overcoat described in The Rainbow?

3. How many words are listed at the start of Word Game?

4. Who did the young man speak to, according to Litotes?

5. What does the friend tell the young man he should do in Word-Composition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you learn about the narrator of "Ignorance" from reading the variation?

2. How are the variations "Comedy" and "Asides" alike?

3. Explain the variation "Cross Examination."

4. Compare and contrast the two "Subjectivity" variations.

5. What are the three reactions Barbara Wright received when she told people she was translating a book by Raymond Queneau?

6. What is common among the narrators in "Speaking Personally," "Exclamations," and "You Know?"

7. Wright says Exercises in Style was one of the books Queneau wanted translated. What is her reaction?

8. Why might the variation "Cockney" be difficult to read?

9. How do the events occur in the variation "Retrograde?"

10. Why are the details in the variation "Dream" vague?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the tone of the basic story in Exercises in Style? How do you know? Does this tone change in different variations? If so, give at least one example.

Essay Topic 2

What are the elements of the setting given in the basic story? How are these elements important to the story and its variations?

Essay Topic 3

How does the author break down language--phrases and words--in the variations? What is the affect this process has?

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