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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote "Notes for the 1981 American Paperback Edition"?
(a) Barbara Wright.
(b) Raymond Carver.
(c) A. S. Byatt.
(d) Raymond Queneau.

3. How many words are listed at the start of Word Game?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) None.

4. What comparison does the narrator make about himself in Noble?
(a) Frenchman.
(b) East Indian.
(c) Red Indian.
(d) American.

5. What was happening to the passengers in Passive?
(a) They were being rushed through the streets.
(b) They were being watched by the sun.
(c) They were being squashed together.
(d) They were being jostled along.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the translator of Exercises in Style?

2. What expertise does the witness have in Cross Examination?

3. What word is misspelled and corrected in Official Letter?

4. What bus does the narrator get on in Past?

5. On what bus does the story take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain some of the differences between "Official Letter" and "Blurb."

2. Why does the author use a different typeface in "Official Letter?"

3. Explain passive voice as used in the variation "Passive."

4. Why are the details in the variation "Dream" vague?

5. How are the variations "Comedy" and "Asides" alike?

6. What is an Alexandrine sonnet, and what are the rhyme scheme and meter used in "Alexandrines?"

7. Explain the variation titled "Notation."

8. What is a metaphor, and how does it apply to the variation titled "Metaphorically?"

9. Compare and contrast "Apheresis" and "Apocope."

10. Explain the perspective of the basic story given in "Animism." How does the author accomplish this perspective?

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