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

2. What were the speaker and his father recently doing, despite his father's doctor telling him not to?
(a) Running.
(b) Pulling weeds.
(c) Stacking wood.
(d) Lifting weights.

3. 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) Sex::yes.
(c) My eyes water when I speak about my family::I don't like to speak about my family.
(d) I want a better life::my family.

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

5. Why does the speaker think he has become a yes man?
(a) He is afraid of dying.
(b) He likes to make people happy.
(c) He likes to keep busy.
(d) He has low self-esteem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?

2. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?

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

4. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?

5. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?

(see the answer key)

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