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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 recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?
(a) Hiding from Nazis.
(b) Running for president.
(c) Playing on the Orioles.
(d) Pulling weeds from his chest.

2. What does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?
(a) Jonathan was laughing as he pulled weeds from his chest.
(b) His father was really pulling weeds from his brother's chest.
(c) Jonathan was the one pulling weeds from his chest.
(d) Jonathan's mother was crying while pulling weeds from his chest.

3. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?
(a) His parent's house.
(b) The National Zoo parking lot.
(c) The mall parking lot.
(d) His apartment.

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

5. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?
(a) His brother's upcoming wedding.
(b) His father's recent job loss.
(c) His own grades in college.
(d) His father's recent angioplasty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?

3. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?

4. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?

5. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?

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