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

2. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) A meditation tape.
(b) National Public Radio.
(c) Barry Manilow.
(d) An audio version of Shoah.

3. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandmother.

4. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?
(a) Two exclamation points and two plus signs.
(b) An exclamation point with a plus sign.
(c) Four exclamations points.
(d) Two exclamation points.

5. How many heart attacks does the speaker say his family has "and counting" (1)?
(a) 3.
(b) 65.
(c) 41.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which symbol represents the corroboration mark?

3. What symbol represents the "backup"?

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

5. What does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?

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