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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 does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?
(a) A nice time.
(b) An enjoyable conversation.
(c) A heated argument.
(d) A disappointing visit.

2. What does the unxclamation indicate?
(a) A whisper.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Annoyance.
(d) Shooshing someone.

3. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) Out of my way, jackass.
(b) Go away, asshole.
(c) Get over it, loser.
(d) Give it up, fucker.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol represents the pedal point?

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

3. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?

4. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

5. How often does the narrator say his family uses the extraexclamation point?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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