Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.

Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.

I believe that the ghost that has appeared before me truly is my father’s spirit, and that everything it has said is true. The ghost did not flee before Horatio’s “cross,” and it shows Christian forbearance towards my “common” mother. Thus, I

! is an exclamation mark - is a dash . is also a dot : colon ; semi-colon " ... " quotation marks " quote .............. " unquote

It seems that question marks and exclamation marks always go where they naturally belong, but full stops and commas are less clear-cut. With brackets, OTOH, they always go where they naturally belong. Is there a rationale for this? Given that