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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?
(a) His jewish heritage.
(b) His family health history.
(c) His brother.
(d) The girl or his mother.

2. During what type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing her children.
(b) When discussing her heart condition.
(c) When discussing his grandfather's illness.
(d) When discussing her life in Europe before the war.

3. During what conversation with his father does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing family history of heart disease.
(b) When discussing his relationship with his wife.
(c) When discussing life in Europe before the war.
(d) When discussing his work.

4. What is the subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?
(a) His depression.
(b) His lack of a good job.
(c) His inability to community with candor.
(d) His lack of a girlfriend.

5. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?
(a) When his mother told him it pained her to think of him alone.
(b) When his father told him his brother had become a yes man.
(c) When his brother told him he had been having a heart attack for six years.
(d) When his grandmother told him she hopes he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's brother learn after he ended up in intensive care several weeks ago?

2. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?

3. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?

4. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?

5. What were the stranger and the narrator's father arguing over in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

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