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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 is the purpose of the backup?
(a) It is used to repeat what you said so the person to whom you are speaking can understand.
(b) It is used to restart a conversation when you were too distracted to listen.
(c) It is used to replay a sentence and discover what might have been missed.
(d) It is used to erase what you said and rephrase.

2. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) Get over it, loser.
(b) Go away, asshole.
(c) Out of my way, jackass.
(d) Give it up, fucker.

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

4. What does the silence mark signify?
(a) Quieting someone.
(b) Absence of language.
(c) Confusion.
(d) A moment of meditation.

5. What symbol represents "the low point" in the speaker's familial communication?
(a) A thumbs down emoji.
(b) An X.
(c) The sad face.
(d) The upside down arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?

2. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?

3. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?

4. What phrase can the low point replace?

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

(see the answer key)

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