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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?
(a) His jewish heritage.
(b) His brother.
(c) The girl or his mother.
(d) His family health history.

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

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

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

6. 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) An audio version of Shoah.
(c) National Public Radio.
(d) Barry Manilow.

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

8. What did the speaker's father say to his children after the argument with the stranger as he held his hand to his heart?
(a) I should have stood up to him.
(b) It's never, ever worth it.
(c) That guy was a jerk.
(d) Don't be a whimp like your old man.

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

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

11. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?
(a) The mall parking lot.
(b) His apartment.
(c) His parent's house.
(d) The National Zoo parking lot.

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

13. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?
(a) His father's recent job loss.
(b) His own grades in college.
(c) His brother's upcoming wedding.
(d) His father's recent angioplasty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?

4. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?

5. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

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