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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. Why are the Permutations exercises virtually incomprehensible?
(a) They break down the words.
(b) The words are chosen at random.
(c) The words are written in French.
(d) The words are out of order in the sentences.

2. How many acts are in Opera English?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

3. How is the man's neck described in Gustatory?
(a) Rather unusual.
(b) Rather long.
(c) Rather sourish.
(d) Rather normal.

4. What is different about the first man in Spectral?
(a) He is a dog.
(b) He is a ghost.
(c) Nothing is different about him.
(d) He is a woman.

5. What sense is the focus of Olfactory?
(a) Smell.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Touch.
(d) Sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal is the man's neck compared in Zoological?

2. What is one characteristic of Philosophic?

3. What is the variation Rhyming Slang replacing in Exercises in Style?

4. What is one characteristic of Casual?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the variation "Olfactory."

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

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

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

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

6. What makes the narrator in the variation "Biased" a biased narrator?

7. What makes the variation "Awkward" seem awkward?

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

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

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

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