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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 acknowledge about the should-have brackets in the final paragraph of the story?
(a) They are used less frequently among his family members lately.
(b) They are used more often between him and his father.
(c) Each family member's sense of the should-haves is different.
(d) They rarely exist in conversations between himself and his brother.

2. What does the original use of a lowpoint then to create?
(a) The low point lull.
(b) The low point silence.
(c) The low point chain.
(d) The low point challenge.

3. What is the purpose of the backup?
(a) It is used to replay a sentence and discover what might have been missed.
(b) It is used to erase what you said and rephrase.
(c) It is used to repeat what you said so the person to whom you are speaking can understand.
(d) It is used to restart a conversation when you were too distracted to listen.

4. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?
(a) He was having heart surgery.
(b) He was getting married.
(c) He was moving abroad.
(d) He was graduating college.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?

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

3. What topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?

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

5. What phrase can the low point replace?

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