2. What does the pedal point signify?
(a) An interrupted thought.
(b) A thought that dissolves into a suggestive silence.
(c) A thought that never ends.
(d) An incomplete thought.

3. What were the stranger and the narrator's father arguing over in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) A tip.
(b) A parking space.
(c) Politics.
(d) A sport's game.

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

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

6. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His grandmother.

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

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

9. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?
(a) A disappointing visit.
(b) A heated argument.
(c) An enjoyable conversation.
(d) A nice time.

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

11. During what type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing her children.
(b) When discussing her heart condition.
(c) When discussing his grandfather's illness.
(d) When discussing her life in Europe before the war.

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

13. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) A meditation tape.
(b) Barry Manilow.
(c) An audio version of Shoah.
(d) National Public Radio.

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

15. 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.