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

2. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?
(a) The insistent question mark.
(b) The irate question mark.
(c) The interrogating question mark.
(d) The ignorant question mark.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the original use of a lowpoint then to create?

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

3. How many heart attacks has the speaker's father suffered?

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

5. Why does the speaker think he has become a yes man?

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