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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which member of the speaker's family do you attribute this sentence to: "I didn't die in the Holocaust, but all of my siblings did, so where does that leave me" (5)?
(a) His father
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His great-aunt.
(d) His mother.

2. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?
(a) The confusion mark.
(b) The silence mark.
(c) The insistent question mark.
(d) The willed silence mark.

3. What symbol represents the "backup"?
(a) A left arrow.
(b) A right arrow.
(c) An upside down arrow.
(d) An upright arrow.

4. How may fights have the speaker's parent had in all of their marriage?
(a) Dozens.
(b) 1.
(c) 10.
(d) Hundreds.

5. What did the speaker's father say to his children after the argument with the stranger as he held his hand to his heart?
(a) It's never, ever worth it.
(b) I should have stood up to him.
(c) Don't be a whimp like your old man.
(d) That guy was a jerk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?

2. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

3. What does the unxclamation indicate?

4. What discussion between the speaker's father and mother does he use to exemplify the corroboration mark?

5. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?

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