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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 great-aunt.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His father
(d) His mother.

2. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandmother.

3. During what conversation with his father does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing his relationship with his wife.
(b) When discussing his work.
(c) When discussing family history of heart disease.
(d) When discussing life in Europe before the war.

4. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?
(a) His father's recent job loss.
(b) His own grades in college.
(c) His brother's upcoming wedding.
(d) His father's recent angioplasty.

5. 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) A meditation tape.
(c) An audio version of Shoah.
(d) Barry Manilow.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?

4. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?

5. When is the reversible colon used?

(see the answer key)

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