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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 type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
(a) When discussing his grandfather's illness.
(b) When discussing her children.
(c) When discussing her life in Europe before the war.
(d) When discussing her heart condition.

2. What does the pedal point signify?
(a) An interrupted thought.
(b) A thought that never ends.
(c) A thought that dissolves into a suggestive silence.
(d) An incomplete thought.

3. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) Barry Manilow.
(b) National Public Radio.
(c) An audio version of Shoah.
(d) A meditation tape.

4. What does the silence mark signify?
(a) Confusion.
(b) A moment of meditation.
(c) Quieting someone.
(d) Absence of language.

5. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?
(a) An hand silhouette.
(b) A blackened square.
(c) An upside down triangle.
(d) A circle with an X in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

2. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?

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

4. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?

5. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the extraunxclamation points? What does the speaker think of them?

5. 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?

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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