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

2. 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 brother.
(d) His jewish heritage.

3. What does the silence mark signify?
(a) Absence of language.
(b) Quieting someone.
(c) A moment of meditation.
(d) Confusion.

4. What does the willed silence mark signify?
(a) Unintentional silence.
(b) Intentional silence.
(c) A signal to be quiet.
(d) Loss for words.

5. What does the pedal point signify?
(a) A thought that never ends.
(b) An interrupted thought.
(c) A thought that dissolves into a suggestive silence.
(d) An incomplete thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?

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

3. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?

4. What symbol represents the pedal point?

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

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