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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 does the silence mark signify?
(a) Quieting someone.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Absence of language.
(d) A moment of meditation.

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

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 one side of a sentence is better than the other.
(c) To show that two sides of a sentence explain each other.
(d) To show that both sides of the sentence cancel each other out.

4. What sentence is NOT used as an example of when the reversible colon is appropriate?
(a) I've never felt loved by anyone outside of my family::my persistent depression.
(b) My eyes water when I speak about my family::I don't like to speak about my family.
(c) Sex::yes.
(d) I want a better life::my family.

5. 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 having heart surgery.
(c) He was moving abroad.
(d) He was getting married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol represents the pedal point?

2. What recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?

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

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

5. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?

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