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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 the age of the narrator in Reactionary?

2. What does the rhyming slang replace in Rhyming Slang?

3. What terminology is used in Gastronomical?

4. How are the passengers described in Medical?

5. What is wrong with the button in Philosophic?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. Compare and contrast "Back Slang" and "Dog Latin."

7. Why do you think the author ends Exercises in Style with the variation "Unexpected?"

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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