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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. How are the words arranged in Parts of Speech?

2. What is used throughout Futile?

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

4. What sense is the focus of Gustatory?

5. How many lines are in Haiku?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the author includes the variation "Feminine?"

2. Explain the variation "Consequences."

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

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

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

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

7. Why is the variation "For Ze Frrensh" considered comical? Why is this variation put in place of "Poor lay Zanglay" in the English version of Exercises in Style?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the variation "Unexpected" fit into the theme of pointlessness in Exercises in Style?

Essay Topic 2

Explain why the young man, second man and the young man's friend are not given names in the story. Does this help or hurt the overall story? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the role of the young man's hat in the basic story and variations.

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