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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 topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?
(a) His schooling.
(b) His relationships with girls.
(c) His grades.
(d) His heart.

2. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?
(a) Someone who loved him.
(b) Someone who knew his name.
(c) Someone from his hometown.
(d) Someone who did not love him.

3. What did the narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?
(a) Only fight if you can win.
(b) It's never, ever worth it.
(c) He loved a good fight.
(d) She will always win.

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

5. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?
(a) When his mother told him it pained her to think of him alone.
(b) When his father told him his brother had become a yes man.
(c) When his grandmother told him she hopes he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(d) When his brother told him he had been having a heart attack for six years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the severed web mean, approximately?

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)?

3. What does the unxclamation indicate?

4. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?

5. What phrase can the low point replace?

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