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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How may fights have the speaker's parent had in all of their marriage?
(a) Dozens.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) 10.
(d) 1.

2. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His grandmother.

3. How many heart attacks had the speaker's father suffered when he told his son the secret to his successful marriage?
(a) 4.
(b) 19.
(c) 1.
(d) 22.

4. 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)?
(a) His great-aunt.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father

5. What did the speaker's father say to his children after the argument with the stranger as he held his hand to his heart?
(a) It's never, ever worth it.
(b) I should have stood up to him.
(c) That guy was a jerk.
(d) Don't be a whimp like your old man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?

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

3. The speaker uses a conversation between himself and which relative as an example of the low point?

4. How often does the narrator say his family uses the extraexclamation point?

5. What symbol represents the "backup"?

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