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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 discussion between the speaker's father and mother does he use to exemplify the corroboration mark?
(a) A talk about their marital problems.
(b) A talk about what to cook for dinner.
(c) A talk about what to watch on TV.
(d) A talk about groceries.

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

3. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?
(a) An exclamation point with a X over it.
(b) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(c) A sideways exclamation point.
(d) An upside down exclamation point.

4. What does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?
(a) Giving each other room to grow.
(b) Being a little deaf sometimes.
(c) Being a yes man.
(d) Open communication.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pedal point signify?

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

3. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

4. Which of his family members does the speaker say he loved more than he loved himself?

5. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?

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