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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 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 angioplasty.
(b) His brother's upcoming wedding.
(c) His father's recent job loss.
(d) His own grades in college.

2. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?
(a) Four exclamation points.
(b) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(c) Two upside down exclamation points.
(d) Two exclamation points.

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

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

5. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?
(a) School.
(b) Piano lessons.
(c) Work.
(d) Karate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the unxclamation indicate?

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

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

4. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?

5. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

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