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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?
(a) The National Zoo parking lot.
(b) His apartment.
(c) His parent's house.
(d) The mall parking lot.

2. What phrase can the low point replace?
(a) Nowhere to go but up.
(b) What goes up must come down.
(c) This is as good as it gets.
(d) It couldn't possible be worse.

3. What does the willed silence mark signify?
(a) Unintentional silence.
(b) A signal to be quiet.
(c) Loss for words.
(d) Intentional silence.

4. What does the silence mark signify?
(a) Quieting someone.
(b) Absence of language.
(c) A moment of meditation.
(d) Confusion.

5. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?
(a) He was moving abroad.
(b) He was graduating college.
(c) He was having heart surgery.
(d) He was getting married.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?

2. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

3. What recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?

4. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?

5. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?

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