2. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?
(a) He suffered panic attacks.
(b) He was depressed.
(c) He had a high fever for several days.
(d) He was having chest pains.

3. What does the speaker say low points tend to do in his communication with family?
(a) Make things worse.
(b) Not change anything.
(c) Make things better.
(d) Confuse the situation.

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

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

6. Why does the speaker think he has become a yes man?
(a) He likes to keep busy.
(b) He likes to make people happy.
(c) He is afraid of dying.
(d) He has low self-esteem.

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

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

9. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?
(a) He was having heart surgery.
(b) He was graduating college.
(c) He was moving abroad.
(d) He was getting married.

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

11. When is the reversible colon used?
(a) To show that one side of a sentence is better than the other.
(b) To show that two sides of a sentence explain each other.
(c) To show that both sides of the sentence cancel each other out.
(d) To show that one side of a sentence does not need the other.

12. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?
(a) A willingness to communicate.
(b) Failures to communicate.
(c) Honest communication.
(d) Forced communication.

13. What were the speaker and his father recently doing, despite his father's doctor telling him not to?
(a) Stacking wood.
(b) Lifting weights.
(c) Running.
(d) Pulling weeds.

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

15. 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 must exercise more.
(c) He should watch his diet.
(d) He should not worry.