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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker uses a conversation between himself and which relative as an example of the low point?
(a) His father.
(b) His brother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His grandmother.

2. What is the speaker's response to "Jonathan" when followed by a pedal point in the example he uses?
(a) Leave me alone.
(b) Be quiet.
(c) I know.
(d) Say no more.

3. Which of his family members does the speaker say he loved more than he loved himself?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His brother.

4. What is the purpose of the backup?
(a) It is used to replay a sentence and discover what might have been missed.
(b) It is used to repeat what you said so the person to whom you are speaking can understand.
(c) It is used to restart a conversation when you were too distracted to listen.
(d) It is used to erase what you said and rephrase.

5. What did the speaker call his brother and say after finding out he was in intensive care?
(a) He needs to take care of himself.
(b) He should watch his diet.
(c) He must exercise more.
(d) He should not worry.

6. Which symbol represents the corroboration mark?
(a) The heart.
(b) The snowflake.
(c) The smiley face.
(d) The exclamation point.

7. What symbol represents the "backup"?
(a) An upright arrow.
(b) An upside down arrow.
(c) A right arrow.
(d) A left arrow.

8. What does the original use of a lowpoint then to create?
(a) The low point challenge.
(b) The low point lull.
(c) The low point chain.
(d) The low point silence.

9. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?
(a) A Barely Tolerable Subsitute.
(b) A Hardly Acceptable Replacement.
(c) A Scarcely Salvageable Sentence.
(d) An Inadequately Worded Idiom.

10. What does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?
(a) Jonathan was the one pulling weeds from his chest.
(b) Jonathan was laughing as he pulled weeds from his chest.
(c) Jonathan's mother was crying while pulling weeds from his chest.
(d) His father was really pulling weeds from his brother's chest.

11. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?
(a) When his mother told him it pained her to think of him alone.
(b) When his father told him his brother had become a yes man.
(c) When his grandmother told him she hopes he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(d) When his brother told him he had been having a heart attack for six years.

12. How may fights have the speaker's parent had in all of their marriage?
(a) Dozens.
(b) 10.
(c) 1.
(d) Hundreds.

13. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?
(a) {Help}.
(b) {I love you too, so much}.
(c) {Let me be}.
(d) {I'm crying into the phone}.

14. What symbol represents "the low point" in the speaker's familial communication?
(a) A thumbs down emoji.
(b) An X.
(c) The upside down arrow.
(d) The sad face.

15. What does the severed web mean, approximately?
(a) I love you.
(b) I see you.
(c) I loathe you.
(d) I need you.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were some things the speaker's father's doctor advised him against doing due to the emotional stress these things caused him?

2. Which member of the speaker's family do you attribute this sentence to: "I didn't die in the Holocaust, but all of my siblings did, so where does that leave me" (5)?

3. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?

4. What symbol represents "the end of a unique familial phrase" (5)?

5. What phrase can the low point replace?

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