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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 does the speaker say low points tend to do in his communication with family?
(a) Make things better.
(b) Make things worse.
(c) Not change anything.
(d) Confuse the situation.

2. During what conversation with his father does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing his work.
(b) When discussing his relationship with his wife.
(c) When discussing family history of heart disease.
(d) When discussing life in Europe before the war.

3. During what type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing her heart condition.
(b) When discussing her life in Europe before the war.
(c) When discussing her children.
(d) When discussing his grandfather's illness.

4. How often does the narrator say his family uses the extraexclamation point?
(a) Almost daily.
(b) At every holiday.
(c) Never.
(d) Once a week.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the stranger and the narrator's father arguing over in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

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

4. What does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?

5. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

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