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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 phrase can the low point replace?
(a) This is as good as it gets.
(b) What goes up must come down.
(c) Nowhere to go but up.
(d) It couldn't possible be worse.

2. What phrase is an example a sentence never uttered by the speaker or any member of the speaker's family?
(a) My heart is no good, and I'm afraid of dying, and I'm also afraid of saying I love you.
(b) I don't know how to have a relationship with you, but I know I love you.
(c) I don't want you in my life, but that does not mean I don't care.
(d) My life is full of pain, and it's not your fault, but I'm so sad.

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

4. How early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?
(a) On their first anniversary.
(b) The first day.
(c) During the first week.
(d) After their first year.

5. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?
(a) Honest communication.
(b) A willingness to communicate.
(c) Failures to communicate.
(d) Forced communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many heart attacks has the speaker's father suffered?

2. What does the speaker say low points tend to do in his communication with family?

3. When is the reversible colon used?

4. What symbol represents the "backup"?

5. The speaker uses a conversation between himself and which relative as an example of the low point?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?

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

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

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

7. What are the should-have brackets?

8. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?

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

10. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?

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