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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 recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?
(a) Playing on the Orioles.
(b) Running for president.
(c) Pulling weeds from his chest.
(d) Hiding from Nazis.

2. What phrase is an example a sentence never uttered by the speaker or any member of the speaker's family?
(a) I don't know how to have a relationship with you, but I know I love you.
(b) My life is full of pain, and it's not your fault, but I'm so sad.
(c) I don't want you in my life, but that does not mean I don't care.
(d) My heart is no good, and I'm afraid of dying, and I'm also afraid of saying I love you.

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

4. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?
(a) Rhombus.
(b) Circle.
(c) Square.
(d) Triangle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?

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

3. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?

4. What is the subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?

5. What topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?

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