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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?
(a) The confusion mark.
(b) The willed silence mark.
(c) The silence mark.
(d) The insistent question mark.

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

3. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?
(a) Circle.
(b) Rhombus.
(c) Triangle.
(d) Square.

4. What do the should have brackets denote?
(a) Words you know you were expected to say but could not.
(b) When you realize what you should have said after the fact.
(c) Words that were not spoken but should have been.
(d) Words someone thinks you should have said but did not.

5. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) Snowy.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Overcast.
(d) Rainy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?

2. What example does the speaker use of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?

3. What does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?

4. What does the silence mark signify?

5. What does the pedal point signify?

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