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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 willed silence mark signify?
(a) Unintentional silence.
(b) Intentional silence.
(c) A signal to be quiet.
(d) Loss for words.

2. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?
(a) A sideways exclamation point.
(b) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(c) An upside down exclamation point.
(d) An exclamation point with a X over it.

3. 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 heart condition.
(c) When discussing her life in Europe before the war.
(d) When discussing her children.

4. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) Overcast.
(b) Snowy.
(c) Rainy.
(d) Sunny.

5. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?
(a) His jewish heritage.
(b) His family health history.
(c) The girl or his mother.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?

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

4. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What symbol represents the extraexclamation points?

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

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