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

2. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?
(a) Jonathan Swift.
(b) Jonathan Franzen.
(c) Jonathan Safran Foer.
(d) Jonathan Sears.

3. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?
(a) The girl or his mother.
(b) His family health history.
(c) His jewish heritage.
(d) His brother.

4. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?
(a) Two exclamation points.
(b) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(c) Two upside down exclamation points.
(d) Four exclamation points.

5. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?
(a) Someone who did not love him.
(b) Someone who loved him.
(c) Someone from his hometown.
(d) Someone who knew his name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the speaker's response to "Jonathan" when followed by a pedal point in the example he uses?

2. What does the silence mark signify?

3. What example does the speaker use of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?

4. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

5. What does the pedal point signify?

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