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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. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?
(a) {I love you too, so much}.
(b) {Let me be}.
(c) {I'm crying into the phone}.
(d) {Help}.

2. What are some things the speaker might be doing when he imagines his family's versions of the should-haves?
(a) Having sex or driving.
(b) Reading a book or making dinner.
(c) Shopping or doing his taxes.
(d) Taking a walk or a shower.

3. What example does the speaker use of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?
(a) {I'm hanging up the phone}.
(b) {I'm no longer listening}.
(c) {I cannot hear anything}.
(d) {I'm crying into the phone}.

4. What discussion between the speaker's father and mother does he use to exemplify the corroboration mark?
(a) A talk about what to watch on TV.
(b) A talk about their marital problems.
(c) A talk about groceries.
(d) A talk about what to cook for dinner.

5. What does the speaker say low points tend to do in his communication with family?
(a) Not change anything.
(b) Confuse the situation.
(c) Make things worse.
(d) Make things better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the severed web mean, approximately?

2. What sentence is NOT used as an example of when the reversible colon is appropriate?

3. Why does the speaker think he has become a yes man?

4. The speaker uses a conversation between himself and which relative as an example of the low point?

5. What recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?

2. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?

3. What are the should-have brackets?

4. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?

5. What is one example the speaker gives of the use of a reversible colon?

6. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.

7. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?

8. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?

9. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.

10. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?

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