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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 father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?
(a) Jonathan's mother was crying while pulling 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 was laughing as he pulled weeds from his chest.

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

3. 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.

4. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?
(a) {I'm crying into the phone}.
(b) {I love you too, so much}.
(c) {Help}.
(d) {Let me be}.

5. What example does the speaker use of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?
(a) {I cannot hear anything}.
(b) {I'm crying into the phone}.
(c) {I'm no longer listening}.
(d) {I'm hanging up the phone}.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's father say to his children after the argument with the stranger as he held his hand to his heart?

2. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?

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

4. Which of his family members does the speaker say he loved more than he loved himself?

5. 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)?

(see the answer key)

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