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

2. 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.

3. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?
(a) Two exclamation points.
(b) Four exclamation points.
(c) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(d) Two upside down exclamation points.

4. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?
(a) The grandmother told him she hoped he had his old grandchildren someday.
(b) The grandmother told him she hoped he had a nice piano lesson.
(c) The grandmother told him she hoped someday he loves someone as much as she loves him.
(d) The grandmother told him she hoped he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?

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

4. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?

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

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