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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 does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?
(a) The girl or his mother.
(b) His family health history.
(c) His jewish heritage.
(d) His brother.

2. What does the unxclamation indicate?
(a) A whisper.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Annoyance.
(d) Shooshing someone.

3. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?
(a) The National Zoo parking lot.
(b) The mall parking lot.
(c) His apartment.
(d) His parent's house.

4. What did the speaker's father say to his children after the argument with the stranger as he held his hand to his heart?
(a) It's never, ever worth it.
(b) That guy was a jerk.
(c) I should have stood up to him.
(d) Don't be a whimp like your old man.

5. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Overcast.
(c) Snowy.
(d) Rainy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol represents the pedal point?

2. What does the pedal point signify?

3. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?

4. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?

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

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