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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 topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?
(a) His schooling.
(b) His grades.
(c) His relationships with girls.
(d) His heart.

2. How is this sentence spoken by the speaker's mother changed when the back up is used: "It pains me to think of you alone" (7).
(a) It pains me to think you will not have anyone to take care of you in old age.
(b) It pains me to think of me without any grandchildren to love.
(c) It pains me to think you will never know a child's love.
(d) It pains me to think you may never understand how much I love you.

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

4. 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.

5. What does the pedal point signify?
(a) An incomplete thought.
(b) A thought that never ends.
(c) An interrupted thought.
(d) A thought that dissolves into a suggestive silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what conversation with his father does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?

2. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?

3. What sentence is NOT used as an example of when the reversible colon is appropriate?

4. What does the severed web mean, approximately?

5. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?

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