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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 does the narrator of Biased notice about the nearby passengers?

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

3. What is the age of the narrator in Reactionary?

4. What literary form is Free Verse?

5. What is the date of writing of Spectral?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain the variation "Olfactory."

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

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

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

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

9. What is the style of the variation "Modern Style?" How do you know?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How do the sounds of the words in some variations of Exercises in Style affect the reading of those variations?

Essay Topic 3

Explain why the young man, second man and the young man's friend are not given names in the story. Does this help or hurt the overall story? Why?

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