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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the speaker call his brother and say after finding out he was in intensive care?
(a) He should not worry.
(b) He must exercise more.
(c) He needs to take care of himself.
(d) He should watch his diet.

2. What did the speaker's brother learn after he ended up in intensive care several weeks ago?
(a) He had been experiencing panic attacks for six years.
(b) He had contracted Lyme disease.
(c) He had been having one long heart attack for six years.
(d) He had cancer.

3. How is this sentence spoken by the speaker's mother changed when the back up is used: "It pains me to think of you alone" (7).
(a) It pains me to think you will never know a child's love.
(b) It pains me to think of me without any grandchildren to love.
(c) It pains me to think you will not have anyone to take care of you in old age.
(d) It pains me to think you may never understand how much I love you.

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

5. What example does the speaker use of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?
(a) {I'm no longer listening}.
(b) {I'm crying into the phone}.
(c) {I cannot hear anything}.
(d) {I'm hanging up the phone}.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were some things the speaker's father's doctor advised him against doing due to the emotional stress these things caused him?

2. What phrase is an example a sentence never uttered by the speaker or any member of the speaker's family?

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

4. What symbol represents the pedal point?

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

(see the answer key)

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