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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His father.

2. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?
(a) The confusion mark.
(b) The insistent question mark.
(c) The silence mark.
(d) The willed silence mark.

3. What were the stranger and the narrator's father arguing over in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) A tip.
(b) Politics.
(c) A sport's game.
(d) A parking space.

4. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) A meditation tape.
(b) Barry Manilow.
(c) National Public Radio.
(d) An audio version of Shoah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

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

3. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?

4. What does the silence mark signify?

5. What does the unxclamation indicate?

(see the answer key)

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