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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 subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?
(a) His inability to community with candor.
(b) His depression.
(c) His lack of a girlfriend.
(d) His lack of a good job.

2. What symbol represents "the low point" in the speaker's familial communication?
(a) A thumbs down emoji.
(b) The sad face.
(c) The upside down arrow.
(d) An X.

3. How may fights have the speaker's parent had in all of their marriage?
(a) 1.
(b) Dozens.
(c) 10.
(d) Hundreds.

4. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?
(a) An upside down exclamation point.
(b) An exclamation point with a X over it.
(c) A sideways exclamation point.
(d) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.

5. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?
(a) When his grandmother told him she hopes he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(b) When his father told him his brother had become a yes man.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?

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

3. What were some things the speaker's father's doctor advised him against doing due to the emotional stress these things caused him?

4. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?

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

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