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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 is the subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?
(a) His lack of a good job.
(b) His lack of a girlfriend.
(c) His depression.
(d) His inability to community with candor.

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

3. What were the stranger and the narrator's father arguing over in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) A sport's game.
(b) A tip.
(c) Politics.
(d) A parking space.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol represents the pedal point?

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

3. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?

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

5. How early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?

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