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

2. What topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?
(a) His grades.
(b) His schooling.
(c) His relationships with girls.
(d) His heart.

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

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

5. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?
(a) The grandmother told him she hoped someday he loves someone as much as she loves him.
(b) The grandmother told him she hoped he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(c) The grandmother told him she hoped he had a nice piano lesson.
(d) The grandmother told him she hoped he had his old grandchildren someday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

2. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?

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

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

5. What were the stranger and the narrator's father arguing over in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What conversation does the speaker use to exemplify the silence mark? To whom is he speaking? What is the subject of their conversation?

3. How often does the speaker say the extra exclamation points are used in his family? Based on your understanding if his family, is this surprising? Explain.

4. What is the insistent question mark? When is it used per the speaker's example?

5. What symbol represents the pedal point? What does it mean? How is it different from an ellipses or dash?

6. What symbol indicates the willed silence mark? What does it signify?

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

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

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

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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