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

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 job loss.
(b) His father's recent angioplasty.
(c) His own grades in college.
(d) His brother's upcoming wedding.

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

4. What symbol represents the pedal point?
(a) The wavy line.
(b) The square with an X in it.
(c) The blackened start.
(d) The half moon.

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

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 symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?

3. What topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?

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

5. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

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