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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) {I'm crying into the phone}.
(c) {I love you too, so much}.
(d) {Let me be}.

2. What did the narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?
(a) She will always win.
(b) Only fight if you can win.
(c) He loved a good fight.
(d) It's never, ever worth it.

3. Which member of the speaker's family do you attribute this sentence to: "I didn't die in the Holocaust, but all of my siblings did, so where does that leave me" (5)?
(a) His great-aunt.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His father

4. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?
(a) His own grades in college.
(b) His father's recent angioplasty.
(c) His father's recent job loss.
(d) His brother's upcoming wedding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the speaker's response to "Jonathan" when followed by a pedal point in the example he uses?

2. Which symbol represents the corroboration mark?

3. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?

4. What do the should have brackets denote?

5. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?

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