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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What symbol represents the willed silence mark?
(a) An hand silhouette.
(b) An upside down triangle.
(c) A circle with an X in it.
(d) A blackened square.

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

3. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?
(a) An upside down exclamation point.
(b) Two exclamation points, one up and one upside down.
(c) An exclamation point with a X over it.
(d) A sideways exclamation point.

4. What topic typically results in willed silence on the part of the speaker?
(a) His relationships with girls.
(b) His heart.
(c) His schooling.
(d) His grades.

5. What does the pedal point signify?
(a) A thought that dissolves into a suggestive silence.
(b) A thought that never ends.
(c) An incomplete thought.
(d) An interrupted thought.

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

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

8. What did the speaker's father say to his children after the argument with the stranger as he held his hand to his heart?
(a) Don't be a whimp like your old man.
(b) I should have stood up to him.
(c) That guy was a jerk.
(d) It's never, ever worth it.

9. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His father.

10. What did the speaker's grandmother say to him in his example of the unxclamation point?
(a) The grandmother told him she hoped he never loves anyone as much as she loves him.
(b) The grandmother told him she hoped he had his old grandchildren someday.
(c) The grandmother told him she hoped someday he loves someone as much as she loves him.
(d) The grandmother told him she hoped he had a nice piano lesson.

11. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Snowy.
(c) Rainy.
(d) Overcast.

12. What does the silence mark signify?
(a) Quieting someone.
(b) Confusion.
(c) A moment of meditation.
(d) Absence of language.

13. 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 brother's upcoming wedding.
(d) His own grades in college.

14. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?
(a) Someone who loved him.
(b) Someone who knew his name.
(c) Someone who did not love him.
(d) Someone from his hometown.

15. What does the willed silence mark signify?
(a) Intentional silence.
(b) Loss for words.
(c) Unintentional silence.
(d) A signal to be quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what type of conversation with his grandmother does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?

2. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?

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

4. What does the unxclamation indicate?

5. What does the speaker's mother suggest he may be ashamed of when discussing his relationships with girls?

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