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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 4 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?
(a) {Help}.
(b) {Let me be}.
(c) {I love you too, so much}.
(d) {I'm crying into the phone}.

2. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?
(a) His apartment.
(b) His parent's house.
(c) The mall parking lot.
(d) The National Zoo parking lot.

3. When is the reversible colon used?
(a) To show that both sides of the sentence cancel each other out.
(b) To show that one side of a sentence does not need the other.
(c) To show that one side of a sentence is better than the other.
(d) To show that two sides of a sentence explain each other.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the severed web mean, approximately?

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

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

4. What symbol represents "the low point" in the speaker's familial communication?

5. How early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?

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