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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 of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?
(a) {I'm crying into the phone}.
(b) {I cannot hear anything}.
(c) {I'm hanging up the phone}.
(d) {I'm no longer listening}.

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

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

4. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) Give it up, fucker.
(b) Out of my way, jackass.
(c) Get over it, loser.
(d) Go away, asshole.

5. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?
(a) The irate question mark.
(b) The interrogating question mark.
(c) The insistent question mark.
(d) The ignorant question mark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol represents the "backup"?

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

3. How early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?

4. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?

5. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?

(see the answer key)

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