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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 does the speaker call the severed web symbol?
(a) A Barely Tolerable Subsitute.
(b) A Hardly Acceptable Replacement.
(c) A Scarcely Salvageable Sentence.
(d) An Inadequately Worded Idiom.

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

3. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?
(a) Triangle.
(b) Circle.
(c) Square.
(d) Rhombus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?

2. While weeding, what did the speaker's father say had happened to his brother?

3. What are some things the speaker might be doing when he imagines his family's versions of the should-haves?

4. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?

5. What discussion between the speaker's father and mother does he use to exemplify the corroboration mark?

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