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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?

2. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?

3. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

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

5. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?

(see the answer key)

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