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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 were the speaker and his father recently doing, despite his father's doctor telling him not to?
(a) Running.
(b) Stacking wood.
(c) Pulling weeds.
(d) Lifting weights.

2. How may fights have the speaker's parent had in all of their marriage?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) 1.
(c) 10.
(d) Dozens.

3. Which symbol represents the corroboration mark?
(a) The snowflake.
(b) The smiley face.
(c) The heart.
(d) The exclamation point.

4. What does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?
(a) Being a yes man.
(b) Being a little deaf sometimes.
(c) Giving each other room to grow.
(d) Open communication.

5. What is the subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?
(a) His lack of a girlfriend.
(b) His inability to community with candor.
(c) His lack of a good job.
(d) His depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?

2. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?

3. What did the speaker call his brother and say after finding out he was in intensive care?

4. What recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?

5. What is the purpose of the backup?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.

2. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?

3. What are the final words that remain unspoken, as shown by the use of the should-have brackets, between father and son in the final conversation of the story?

4. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.

5. What are the should-have brackets?

6. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?

7. What is one example the speaker gives of the use of a reversible colon?

8. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.

9. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?

10. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?

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