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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 sentence is NOT used as an example of when the reversible colon is appropriate?
(a) My eyes water when I speak about my family::I don't like to speak about my family.
(b) I've never felt loved by anyone outside of my family::my persistent depression.
(c) Sex::yes.
(d) I want a better life::my family.

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

3. 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 no longer listening}.
(b) {I cannot hear anything}.
(c) {I'm crying into the phone}.
(d) {I'm hanging up the phone}.

4. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

5. What symbol represents the "backup"?
(a) A right arrow.
(b) A left arrow.
(c) An upright arrow.
(d) An upside down arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing the extraexclamation point, what does the speaker say he and his family never do "with any passion" (3)?

2. What phrase can the low point replace?

3. How many heart attacks had the speaker's father suffered when he told his son the secret to his successful marriage?

4. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

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

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