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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. According to the narrator of Probabilist, what is not likely to occur?
(a) The first and second man will become friends.
(b) The man will move the button on his overcoat.
(c) A third encounter.
(d) The hat's ribbon will be replaced.

2. What sound is interjected throughout Parechesis?
(a) Bah.
(b) Boh.
(c) Buh.
(d) Beh.

3. To what animal is the man's neck compared in Zoological?
(a) Giraffe.
(b) Ostrich.
(c) Swan.
(d) Snake.

4. What variation is Back Slang replacing in Exercises in Style?
(a) Loucherbem.
(b) Javanais.
(c) Anglicismes.
(d) Italianismes.

5. What makes Prosthesis difficult to read?
(a) Letters omitted from the ends of the words.
(b) Letters added to the ends of the words.
(c) Letters added to the middles of words.
(d) Letters added to the beginnings of the words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sense is the focus of Auditory?

2. How many acts are in Opera English?

3. How is Telegraphic signed?

4. What tinges the hat's plaited cord in Gustatory?

5. How is the man's head described in Auditory?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Explain the variation "Consequences."

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

9. What affect does "Proper Noun" create by replacing common nouns with proper names?

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

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