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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 Hardly Acceptable Replacement.
(b) A Barely Tolerable Subsitute.
(c) A Scarcely Salvageable Sentence.
(d) An Inadequately Worded Idiom.

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

3. When discussing the extraexclamation point, what does the speaker say he and his family never do "with any passion" (3)?
(a) Hug.
(b) Say I love you.
(c) Argue.
(d) Smile.

4. 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 rarely exist in conversations between himself and his brother.
(c) They are used more often between him and his father.
(d) Each family member's sense of the should-haves is different.

5. What were some things the speaker's father's doctor advised him against doing due to the emotional stress these things caused him?
(a) Watching Orioles games or thinking of the current administration.
(b) Driving during rush hour or answering the phone.
(c) Running or arguing with his wife.
(d) Cooking dinner or cleaning the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which symbol represents the corroboration mark?

2. When is the reversible colon used?

3. Which of his family members does the speaker say he loved more than he loved himself?

4. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?

5. What does the pedal point signify?

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