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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?
(a) Jonathan was laughing as he pulled weeds from his chest.
(b) Jonathan's mother was crying while pulling weeds from his chest.
(c) His father was really pulling weeds from his brother's chest.
(d) Jonathan was the one pulling weeds from his chest.

3. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?
(a) The insistent question mark.
(b) The willed silence mark.
(c) The silence mark.
(d) The confusion mark.

4. While weeding, what did the speaker's father say had happened to his brother?
(a) He had become distant.
(b) He had become a yes man.
(c) He had become very affectionate.
(d) He had become disagreeable.

5. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?
(a) Someone who did not love him.
(b) Someone who knew his name.
(c) Someone from his hometown.
(d) Someone who loved him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many heart attacks does the speaker say his family has "and counting" (1)?

2. During what type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?

3. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?

4. What were the stranger and the narrator's father arguing over in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

5. What does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?

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