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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?
(a) Jonathan Swift.
(b) Jonathan Franzen.
(c) Jonathan Safran Foer.
(d) Jonathan Sears.

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

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

5. 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) Don't be a whimp like your old man.
(c) It's never, ever worth it.
(d) That guy was a jerk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?

2. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

3. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?

4. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?

5. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we learn of the speaker's family health history in the first paragraph? Describe the context.

2. What does the silence mark symbolize? How often does the speaker say it exists in his family's history?

3. How did the exchange between the speaker's father and the stranger end? What conclusion did the father come to in regards to his handling of the situation?

4. What do readers learn of the grandmother's life in the first paragraph? Describe the context.

5. Which member of the family uses the pedal point most with the speaker? Why?

6. How does the speaker describe his relationships with women?

7. How does the speaker's father engage with the angry man in the example he uses of the extra exclamation points?

8. When does the speaker most often use the willed silence mark?

9. Who is yelling at the speaker's father and why in the example he uses of the extraexclamation points?

10. What is the unxclamation point symbol? What does it denote and when was it used per the speaker's example?

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