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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. How is the man's hat described in Abusive?

2. What does the literary term "apostrophe" mean? (Not the punctuation mark.)

3. What is true about the words used in More or Less?

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

5. What is characteristic about the events in Antiphrasis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do you think the author includes the variation "Feminine?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Explain the variation "Consequences."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast "Cockney" and "For Ze Frrensh," particularly in reference to the use of dialect.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the author's use of dramatic elements in Exercises in Style, and how they impact the reader.

Essay Topic 3

How is punctuation used in the variations of Exercises in Style? How does this contribute to exploring the flexibility of language?

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