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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 narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?
(a) It's never, ever worth it.
(b) She will always win.
(c) Only fight if you can win.
(d) He loved a good fight.

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

3. What were the speaker and his father recently doing, despite his father's doctor telling him not to?
(a) Running.
(b) Stacking wood.
(c) Lifting weights.
(d) Pulling weeds.

4. What are some things the speaker might be doing when he imagines his family's versions of the should-haves?
(a) Reading a book or making dinner.
(b) Taking a walk or a shower.
(c) Shopping or doing his taxes.
(d) Having sex or driving.

5. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?
(a) An Inadequately Worded Idiom.
(b) A Hardly Acceptable Replacement.
(c) A Scarcely Salvageable Sentence.
(d) A Barely Tolerable Subsitute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?

2. What symbol represents "the end of a unique familial phrase" (5)?

3. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?

4. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?

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

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