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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?
(a) Circle.
(b) Rhombus.
(c) Square.
(d) Triangle.

7. During what conversation with his father does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing his relationship with his wife.
(b) When discussing life in Europe before the war.
(c) When discussing family history of heart disease.
(d) When discussing his work.

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

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) School.
(d) Work.

10. 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 sport's game.
(c) A parking space.
(d) Politics.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?

2. When discussing the extraexclamation point, what does the speaker say he and his family never do "with any passion" (3)?

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

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

5. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?

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