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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about Anagrams?
(a) The order of the story is rearranged.
(b) The words in each sentence are rearranged.
(c) The paragraphs are rearranged.
(d) The letters of the words are rearranged.

2. What are the only things that never meet, according to the narrator of Speaking Personally?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Chimneys.
(c) Feet.
(d) Molehills.

3. What is the point of view of Present?
(a) Third-person present tense.
(b) Third-person past tense.
(c) Second-person present tense.
(d) First-person present tense.

4. What word replaces all personal nouns and pronouns in Polyptotes?
(a) Human.
(b) Passenger.
(c) Taxpayer.
(d) Animal.

5. Who or what sat down in Animism?
(a) The second man.
(b) The overcoat.
(c) The hat.
(d) The first man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sense is the focus of Tactile?

2. Why does the narrator of Word Game describe the man as ridiculous?

3. What variation is Opera English replacing in Exercises in Style?

4. What language is used in Dog Latin?

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

(see the answer key)

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