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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?
(a) Jonathan Swift.
(b) Jonathan Safran Foer.
(c) Jonathan Sears.
(d) Jonathan Franzen.

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

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

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

5. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) Give it up, fucker.
(b) Get over it, loser.
(c) Go away, asshole.
(d) Out of my way, jackass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

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

3. When discussing the extraexclamation point, what does the speaker say he and his family never do "with any passion" (3)?

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

5. What were the stranger and the narrator's father arguing over in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

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