You need to answer a given question containing a blank (_). Your answer must be one of the two objects mentioned in the question, for example "trophy" and "suitcase". Your answer must not contain a word that is not present in the question. Please don't use articles (e.g., the, a) before the answer.

The student used a period instead of an exclamation point because the _ would make the tone of his essay less authoritative, which the teacher didn't want.
exclamation point