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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many heart attacks has the speaker's father suffered?
(a) 8.
(b) 14.
(c) 41.
(d) 22.

2. What did the speaker's brother learn after he ended up in intensive care several weeks ago?
(a) He had been having one long heart attack for six years.
(b) He had contracted Lyme disease.
(c) He had been experiencing panic attacks for six years.
(d) He had cancer.

3. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) Rainy.
(b) Snowy.
(c) Overcast.
(d) Sunny.

4. What did the narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?
(a) Only fight if you can win.
(b) He loved a good fight.
(c) It's never, ever worth it.
(d) She will always win.

5. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing the extraexclamation point, what does the speaker say he and his family never do "with any passion" (3)?

2. How many heart attacks does the speaker say his family has "and counting" (1)?

3. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?

4. The speaker uses a conversation between himself and which relative as an example of the low point?

5. What does the willed silence mark signify?

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