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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 is the purpose of the backup?
(a) It is used to repeat what you said so the person to whom you are speaking can understand.
(b) It is used to replay a sentence and discover what might have been missed.
(c) It is used to restart a conversation when you were too distracted to listen.
(d) It is used to erase what you said and rephrase.

2. What did the narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?
(a) She will always win.
(b) It's never, ever worth it.
(c) He loved a good fight.
(d) Only fight if you can win.

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

4. How many heart attacks had the speaker's father suffered when he told his son the secret to his successful marriage?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 19.
(d) 22.

5. What example does the speaker use of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?
(a) {I'm hanging up the phone}.
(b) {I'm crying into the phone}.
(c) {I cannot hear anything}.
(d) {I'm no longer listening}.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the speaker and his father recently doing, despite his father's doctor telling him not to?

2. What is the speaker's response to "Jonathan" when followed by a pedal point in the example he uses?

3. What are some things the speaker might be doing when he imagines his family's versions of the should-haves?

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

5. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?

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