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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 purpose of the backup?
(a) It is used to erase what you said and rephrase.
(b) It is used to restart a conversation when you were too distracted to listen.
(c) It is used to replay a sentence and discover what might have been missed.
(d) It is used to repeat what you said so the person to whom you are speaking can understand.

2. The speaker uses a conversation between himself and which relative as an example of the low point?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His brother.

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

4. What symbol represents the pedal point?
(a) The square with an X in it.
(b) The wavy line.
(c) The half moon.
(d) The blackened start.

5. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?
(a) The insistent question mark.
(b) The ignorant question mark.
(c) The interrogating question mark.
(d) The irate question mark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the willed silence mark signify?

2. What symbol represents the "backup"?

3. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

4. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?

5. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?

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