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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 one characteristic of Telegraphic?

2. How many lines are in Haiku?

3. According to the narrator of Probabilist, what is not likely to occur?

4. How are the words arranged in Parts of Speech?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how the basic story is changed in "Antiphrasis."

3. Why is the variation "For Ze Frrensh" considered comical? Why is this variation put in place of "Poor lay Zanglay" in the English version of Exercises in Style?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Explain how "Ode" is different from the rest of the variations.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Which of the variations is the most straightforward? Why? Use examples from the variations to support your claims.

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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