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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 the speaker and his father recently doing, despite his father's doctor telling him not to?
(a) Running.
(b) Pulling weeds.
(c) Lifting weights.
(d) Stacking wood.

2. Which member of the speaker's family do you attribute this sentence to: "I didn't die in the Holocaust, but all of my siblings did, so where does that leave me" (5)?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His father
(c) His great-aunt.
(d) His mother.

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

4. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?
(a) Four exclamations points.
(b) Two exclamation points and two plus signs.
(c) An exclamation point with a plus sign.
(d) Two exclamation points.

5. What does the original use of a lowpoint then to create?
(a) The low point challenge.
(b) The low point silence.
(c) The low point lull.
(d) The low point chain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?

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).

3. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?

4. What were some things the speaker's father's doctor advised him against doing due to the emotional stress these things caused him?

5. What does the speaker acknowledge about the should-have brackets in the final paragraph of the story?

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