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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During what type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing her life in Europe before the war.
(b) When discussing his grandfather's illness.
(c) When discussing her children.
(d) When discussing her heart condition.

3. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?
(a) An enjoyable conversation.
(b) A nice time.
(c) A heated argument.
(d) A disappointing visit.

4. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?
(a) Four exclamations points.
(b) An exclamation point with a plus sign.
(c) Two exclamation points.
(d) Two exclamation points and two plus signs.

5. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?
(a) His father's recent job loss.
(b) His father's recent angioplasty.
(c) His brother's upcoming wedding.
(d) His own grades in college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

2. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?

3. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?

4. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

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

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