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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 symbol represents the willed silence mark?
(a) An upside down triangle.
(b) An hand silhouette.
(c) A blackened square.
(d) A circle with an X in it.

2. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?
(a) The interrogating question mark.
(b) The insistent question mark.
(c) The ignorant question mark.
(d) The irate question mark.

3. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?
(a) His own grades in college.
(b) His brother's upcoming wedding.
(c) His father's recent job loss.
(d) His father's recent angioplasty.

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

5. What topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?
(a) His heart.
(b) His grades.
(c) His schooling.
(d) His relationships with girls.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

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

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

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