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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?
(a) Rhombus.
(b) Square.
(c) Triangle.
(d) Circle.

2. Which of the speaker's family members most uses the pedal point with him?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

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

4. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?
(a) A nice time.
(b) An enjoyable conversation.
(c) A heated argument.
(d) A disappointing visit.

5. What symbol denotes the extraexclamation point?
(a) An exclamation point with a plus sign.
(b) Two exclamation points and two plus signs.
(c) Four exclamations points.
(d) Two exclamation points.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?

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

3. What does the willed silence mark signify?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What symbol represents the extraexclamation points?

2. Who is yelling at the speaker's father and why in the example he uses of the extraexclamation points?

3. Which member of the family uses the pedal point most with the speaker? Why?

4. What do readers learn of the grandmother's life in the first paragraph? Describe the context.

5. What symbol indicates the willed silence mark? What does it signify?

6. What is the extraunxclamation points? What does the speaker think of them?

7. What is the insistent question mark? When is it used per the speaker's example?

8. What symbol represents the pedal point? What does it mean? How is it different from an ellipses or dash?

9. What is the unxclamation point symbol? What does it denote and when was it used per the speaker's example?

10. How did the exchange between the speaker's father and the stranger end? What conclusion did the father come to in regards to his handling of the situation?

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