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

2. What does the unxclamation indicate?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Shooshing someone.
(c) A whisper.
(d) Annoyance.

3. Which symbol represents the corroboration mark?
(a) The smiley face.
(b) The snowflake.
(c) The heart.
(d) The exclamation point.

4. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) A meditation tape.
(b) Barry Manilow.
(c) An audio version of Shoah.
(d) National Public Radio.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the original use of a lowpoint then to create?

3. What phrase is an example a sentence never uttered by the speaker or any member of the speaker's family?

4. What phrase can the low point replace?

5. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?

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