How to play with words

Instant poetry: Perec was given his “impossible” task by a fellow member of OuLiPo.-(Ouvriers des Literatures Potentials, The Workshop of Potential Literature.) This was a group of experimental writers in Paris in the 39______, whose leading 40______ were Perec, Raymond Queneau, and the Italian Italo Calvino. The OuLiPo group developed the theory that writing under 41______ and 42______ was a way to achieve true 43______. Perec liked the paradox – the more you limit yourself, the freer you have to become. Perec’s book is 44______, perhaps, that this experiment works. But probably only if you’re brilliant in the first place. However, another of the OuLiPo word games is within everyone’s reach. Anyone can write an OuLiPo poem - all you need is a pen, paper and a dictionary. Take a poem you like, or maybe one you don’t like, and 45______ all the nouns. Look them up in the dictionary, count 46______ entries forward from the noun you started with and replace the word in the poem with the word you find. If it’s a verb, add “-ing”. So here are the first lines of Dante’s Inferno :
In the middle of the journey of my life
I found myself in a dark wood…
Which becomes :
In the midnight of the joy of my life insurance
I found mythology in a dark woodpile…
You now have an Oulipo poem. It won’t make much 47______, but it’ll probably have some surprising phrases in it you wouldn’t otherwise have thought of. If you don’t like it, change the 48______ as well. Then the verbs. It’s cheating, but it’s truly democratic. Anyone can be a poet – sort of. And it’s a lot easier than lipograms.
True/ False/Not GIven

1. 
   Lipogram is a text written without using the letter ‘E’.
   
2. 
   Letter “E” is more common in French than in English.
   
3. 
   Perec didn’t like word games and puzzles, however he was a master of the Chinese board game GO.
   
4. 
   He even managed to write a 5000 word palindrome- a text that reads the same forwards and backwards.
   
5. 
   Not using the letter “E” would limit his chance only to using 70 % of French words.
   
6. 
   He took up the challenge as the money was staked and he was desperately in need of money.
   
7. 
   This novel which he wrote in a lipogram took him much longer than any other of his book.
   
8. 
   Perec was embarrassed by the negative comments of critics as they noticed the letter E was missing in the novel.
   
9. 
   Perec wrote the next novel using only letter “E”, omitting other vowels.
   
10. 
    The translation of LA DISPARITION into English by Gilbert Adair is considered much easier work than the task of writing the novel from scratch.