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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 symbol represents the willed silence mark?
(a) A blackened square.
(b) An hand silhouette.
(c) A circle with an X in it.
(d) An upside down triangle.

2. How often does the narrator say his family uses the extraexclamation point?
(a) Never.
(b) At every holiday.
(c) Almost daily.
(d) Once a week.

3. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?
(a) Someone who did not love him.
(b) Someone from his hometown.
(c) Someone who loved him.
(d) Someone who knew his name.

4. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His brother.

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

3. What symbol represents the pedal point?

4. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?

5. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?

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