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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 punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?
(a) The irate question mark.
(b) The insistent question mark.
(c) The interrogating question mark.
(d) The ignorant question mark.

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

3. What phrase can the low point replace?
(a) Nowhere to go but up.
(b) What goes up must come down.
(c) It couldn't possible be worse.
(d) This is as good as it gets.

4. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?
(a) When his mother told him it pained her to think of him alone.
(b) When his grandmother told him she hopes he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(c) When his brother told him he had been having a heart attack for six years.
(d) When his father told him his brother had become a yes man.

5. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?
(a) His family health history.
(b) His brother.
(c) His jewish heritage.
(d) The girl or his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?

2. What does the speaker say low points tend to do in his communication with family?

3. What does the willed silence mark signify?

4. What were the speaker and his father recently doing, despite his father's doctor telling him not to?

5. What does the silence mark signify?

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