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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While weeding, what did the speaker's father say had happened to his brother?
(a) He had become very affectionate.
(b) He had become distant.
(c) He had become disagreeable.
(d) He had become a yes man.

2. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?
(a) An Inadequately Worded Idiom.
(b) A Barely Tolerable Subsitute.
(c) A Scarcely Salvageable Sentence.
(d) A Hardly Acceptable Replacement.

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

4. How many heart attacks had the speaker's father suffered when he told his son the secret to his successful marriage?
(a) 19.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 22.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the willed silence mark signify?

2. What did the speaker call his brother and say after finding out he was in intensive care?

3. What did the narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?

4. When is the reversible colon used?

5. Which symbol represents the corroboration mark?

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