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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 recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?
(a) Playing on the Orioles.
(b) Hiding from Nazis.
(c) Running for president.
(d) Pulling weeds from his chest.

2. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
(a) Get over it, loser.
(b) Give it up, fucker.
(c) Go away, asshole.
(d) Out of my way, jackass.

3. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?
(a) His jewish heritage.
(b) The girl or his mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His family health history.

4. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?
(a) Karate.
(b) School.
(c) Work.
(d) Piano lessons.

5. What symbol denotes the extraunxclamation point?
(a) Two exclamation points.
(b) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(c) Four exclamation points.
(d) Two upside down exclamation points.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker acknowledge about the should-have brackets in the final paragraph of the story?

2. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?

3. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?

4. What did the speaker's father say to his children after the argument with the stranger as he held his hand to his heart?

5. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?

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