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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) 1.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Dozens.
(d) 10.

2. What did the speaker's brother learn after he ended up in intensive care several weeks ago?
(a) He had contracted Lyme disease.
(b) He had cancer.
(c) He had been having one long heart attack for six years.
(d) He had been experiencing panic attacks for six years.

3. How many heart attacks does the speaker say his family has "and counting" (1)?
(a) 18.
(b) 65.
(c) 41.
(d) 3.

4. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?
(a) He had a high fever for several days.
(b) He suffered panic attacks.
(c) He was depressed.
(d) He was having chest pains.

5. What do the should have brackets denote?
(a) Words someone thinks you should have said but did 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 you know you were expected to say but could not.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase is an example a sentence never uttered by the speaker or any member of the speaker's family?

2. What does the silence mark signify?

3. 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)?

4. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?

5. What did the narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?

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