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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 shape symbolizes the silence mark?
(a) Circle.
(b) Square.
(c) Triangle.
(d) Rhombus.

2. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?
(a) Forced communication.
(b) A willingness to communicate.
(c) Honest communication.
(d) Failures to communicate.

3. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?
(a) Jonathan Safran Foer.
(b) Jonathan Sears.
(c) Jonathan Swift.
(d) Jonathan Franzen.

4. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?
(a) An upside down exclamation point.
(b) A sideways exclamation point.
(c) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(d) An exclamation point with a X over it.

5. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?
(a) The grandmother told him she hoped he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(b) The grandmother told him she hoped someday he loves someone as much as she loves him.
(c) The grandmother told him she hoped he had his old grandchildren someday.
(d) The grandmother told him she hoped he had a nice piano lesson.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?

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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