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

2. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?
(a) Four exclamation points.
(b) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(c) Two upside down exclamation points.
(d) Two exclamation points.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pedal point signify?

2. What does the willed silence mark signify?

3. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?

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

5. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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