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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 was the man doing two hours later in Narrative?

2. Who wrote "Notes for the 1981 American Paperback Edition"?

3. What was happening to the passengers in Passive?

4. What are the travelers called in Metaphorically?

5. What is one set of exercises mentioned in the possible exercises in style list?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Queneau begins with the variation "Notation?"

2. Explain at least three differences between the variations "Past" and "Present."

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

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

5. Explain the variation titled "Notation."

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

7. How does the author make the variation "Insistence" seem insistent to the reader?

8. What is an Alexandrine sonnet, and what are the rhyme scheme and meter used in "Alexandrines?"

9. What does the use of onomatopoeia in the variation "Onomatopoeia" accomplish for the reader?

10. What is a metaphor, and how does it apply to the variation titled "Metaphorically?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast "Alexandrines" and "Sonnet," paying close attention to the forms of the sonnets.

Essay Topic 3

How does the variation "Unexpected" fit into the theme of pointlessness in Exercises in Style?

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