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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 willed silence mark signify?
(a) A signal to be quiet.
(b) Unintentional silence.
(c) Loss for words.
(d) Intentional silence.

2. What does the pedal point signify?
(a) An incomplete thought.
(b) An interrupted thought.
(c) A thought that never ends.
(d) A thought that dissolves into a suggestive silence.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

2. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?

3. How often does the narrator say his family uses the extraexclamation point?

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 punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?

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