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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?
(a) The grandmother told him she hoped he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(b) The grandmother told him she hoped he had a nice piano lesson.
(c) The grandmother told him she hoped he had his old grandchildren someday.
(d) The grandmother told him she hoped someday he loves someone as much as she loves him.

2. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?
(a) An exclamation point with a plus sign.
(b) Two exclamation points and two plus signs.
(c) Two exclamation points.
(d) Four exclamations points.

3. When discussing the extraexclamation point, what does the speaker say he and his family never do "with any passion" (3)?
(a) Hug.
(b) Smile.
(c) Say I love you.
(d) Argue.

4. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?
(a) An hand silhouette.
(b) An upside down triangle.
(c) A blackened square.
(d) A circle with an X in it.

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

6. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?
(a) Someone who knew his name.
(b) Someone who loved him.
(c) Someone who did not love him.
(d) Someone from his hometown.

7. What symbol represents the pedal point?
(a) The blackened start.
(b) The half moon.
(c) The wavy line.
(d) The square with an X in it.

8. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?
(a) The insistent question mark.
(b) The interrogating question mark.
(c) The ignorant question mark.
(d) The irate question mark.

9. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?
(a) Piano lessons.
(b) Karate.
(c) Work.
(d) School.

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

11. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?
(a) The willed silence mark.
(b) The silence mark.
(c) The confusion mark.
(d) The insistent question mark.

12. What does the unxclamation indicate?
(a) Annoyance.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Shooshing someone.
(d) A whisper.

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

14. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?
(a) Jonathan Safran Foer.
(b) Jonathan Sears.
(c) Jonathan Swift.
(d) Jonathan Franzen.

15. What does the willed silence mark signify?
(a) A signal to be quiet.
(b) Loss for words.
(c) Unintentional silence.
(d) Intentional silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?

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

3. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?

4. What did the speaker's father say to his children after the argument with the stranger as he held his hand to his heart?

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

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