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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 example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?
(a) When his father told him his brother had become a yes man.
(b) When his grandmother told him she hopes he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(c) When his mother told him it pained her to think of him alone.
(d) When his brother told him he had been having a heart attack for six years.

2. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?
(a) {I love you too, so much}.
(b) {Let me be}.
(c) {Help}.
(d) {I'm crying into the phone}.

3. What does the speaker acknowledge about the should-have brackets in the final paragraph of the story?
(a) They are used more often between him and his father.
(b) Each family member's sense of the should-haves is different.
(c) They are used less frequently among his family members lately.
(d) They rarely exist in conversations between himself and his brother.

4. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?
(a) A blackened square.
(b) An hand silhouette.
(c) An upside down triangle.
(d) A circle with an X in it.

5. What topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?
(a) His schooling.
(b) His heart.
(c) His grades.
(d) His relationships with girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What discussion between the speaker's father and mother does he use to exemplify the corroboration mark?

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

3. When is the reversible colon used?

4. What symbol represents "the low point" in the speaker's familial communication?

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

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