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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 symbol represents the willed silence mark?
(a) A circle with an X in it.
(b) A blackened square.
(c) An upside down triangle.
(d) An hand silhouette.

2. How early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?
(a) After their first year.
(b) During the first week.
(c) On their first anniversary.
(d) The first day.

3. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?
(a) He was depressed.
(b) He suffered panic attacks.
(c) He had a high fever for several days.
(d) He was having chest pains.

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

5. What is the speaker's response to "Jonathan" when followed by a pedal point in the example he uses?
(a) Be quiet.
(b) Leave me alone.
(c) Say no more.
(d) I know.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?

2. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?

3. What symbol represents the pedal point?

4. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?

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

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