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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 number of the bus in Narrative?

2. What does the friend tell the young man he should do in Word-Composition?

3. Why did the author stop writing variations by 1946?

4. What needs to be repaired on the man's coat?

5. What is unusual about Anagrams?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the events occur in the variation "Retrograde?"

2. Explain the variation titled "Notation."

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

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

5. What do you learn about the narrator of "Ignorance" from reading the variation?

6. Why do you think Queneau begins with the variation "Notation?"

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

8. Explain the variation "Cross Examination."

9. What is common among the narrators in "Speaking Personally," "Exclamations," and "You Know?"

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Though some of the variations were not translated into English, most of the original variations were able to be translated effectively from French. What does this say about the flexibility of language as it relates to Exercises in Style?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how Raymond Queneau uses poetry and poetic elements in Exercises in Style and how they impact the reader.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the author's use of dramatic elements in Exercises in Style, and how they impact the reader.

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