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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 early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?
(a) After their first year.
(b) On their first anniversary.
(c) During the first week.
(d) The first day.

2. What does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?
(a) Jonathan was the one pulling weeds from his chest.
(b) Jonathan was laughing as he pulled weeds from his chest.
(c) Jonathan's mother was crying while pulling weeds from his chest.
(d) His father was really pulling weeds from his brother's chest.

3. When is the reversible colon used?
(a) To show that one side of a sentence does not need the other.
(b) To show that both sides of the sentence cancel each other out.
(c) To show that one side of a sentence is better than the other.
(d) To show that two sides of a sentence explain each other.

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) Snowy.
(d) Overcast.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?

2. Which symbol represents the corroboration mark?

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

4. What does the unxclamation indicate?

5. Why does the speaker think he has become a yes man?

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