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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 life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?
(a) He was graduating college.
(b) He was moving abroad.
(c) He was having heart surgery.
(d) He was getting married.

2. What does the unxclamation indicate?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) A whisper.
(c) Annoyance.
(d) Shooshing someone.

3. What do the should have brackets denote?
(a) When you realize what you should have said after the fact.
(b) Words you know you were expected to say but could not.
(c) Words someone thinks you should have said but did not.
(d) Words that were not spoken but should have been.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the severed web mean, approximately?

3. What symbol represents "the end of a unique familial phrase" (5)?

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

5. What does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?

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