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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 silence mark signify?
(a) Absence of language.
(b) Quieting someone.
(c) Confusion.
(d) A moment of meditation.

2. Which member of the speaker's family do you attribute this sentence to: "I didn't die in the Holocaust, but all of my siblings did, so where does that leave me" (5)?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father
(d) His great-aunt.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

2. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

3. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

4. How many heart attacks had the speaker's father suffered when he told his son the secret to his successful marriage?

5. Why does the speaker think he has become a yes man?

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