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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While weeding, what did the speaker's father say had happened to his brother?
(a) He had become distant.
(b) He had become a yes man.
(c) He had become very affectionate.
(d) He had become disagreeable.

2. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?
(a) His family health history.
(b) The girl or his mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His jewish heritage.

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

4. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?
(a) He was graduating college.
(b) He was moving abroad.
(c) He was having heart surgery.
(d) He was getting married.

5. What is the subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?
(a) His depression.
(b) His lack of a good job.
(c) His inability to community with candor.
(d) His lack of a girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does the speaker use of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?

2. What symbol represents the "backup"?

3. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

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

5. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?

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