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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 were some things the speaker's father's doctor advised him against doing due to the emotional stress these things caused him?
(a) Driving during rush hour or answering the phone.
(b) Cooking dinner or cleaning the house.
(c) Watching Orioles games or thinking of the current administration.
(d) Running or arguing with his wife.

2. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) National Public Radio.
(b) An audio version of Shoah.
(c) A meditation tape.
(d) Barry Manilow.

3. 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 he had his old grandchildren someday.
(c) The grandmother told him she hoped someday he loves someone as much as she loves him.
(d) The grandmother told him she hoped he had a nice piano lesson.

4. What does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?
(a) His father was really pulling weeds from his brother's chest.
(b) Jonathan's mother was crying while pulling weeds from his chest.
(c) Jonathan was the one pulling weeds from his chest.
(d) Jonathan was laughing as he pulled weeds from his chest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How may fights have the speaker's parent had in all of their marriage?

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

3. What symbol represents the pedal point?

4. While weeding, what did the speaker's father say had happened to his brother?

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

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