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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 own grades in college.
(d) His father's recent job loss.

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

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

5. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?
(a) The grandmother told him she hoped he had his old grandchildren someday.
(b) The grandmother told him she hoped he had a nice piano lesson.
(c) The grandmother told him she hoped someday he loves someone as much as she loves him.
(d) The grandmother told him she hoped he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

4. What does the unxclamation indicate?

5. During what type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?

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