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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?
(a) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(b) Two upside down exclamation points.
(c) Two exclamation points.
(d) Four exclamation points.

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?
(a) An exclamation point with a X over it.
(b) A sideways exclamation point.
(c) An upside down exclamation point.
(d) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.

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

9. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) Out of my way, jackass.
(b) Get over it, loser.
(c) Go away, asshole.
(d) Give it up, fucker.

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. 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 a nice piano lesson.
(b) The grandmother told him she hoped someday he loves someone as much as she loves him.
(c) The grandmother told him she hoped he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(d) The grandmother told him she hoped he had his old grandchildren someday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?

2. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

3. During what conversation with his father does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?

4. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

5. What topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?

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