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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 does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?
(a) His father was really pulling weeds from his brother's chest.
(b) Jonathan was the one pulling weeds from his chest.
(c) Jonathan was laughing as he pulled weeds from his chest.
(d) Jonathan's mother was crying while pulling weeds from his chest.

2. What did the speaker's brother learn after he ended up in intensive care several weeks ago?
(a) He had contracted Lyme disease.
(b) He had cancer.
(c) He had been having one long heart attack for six years.
(d) He had been experiencing panic attacks for six years.

3. What does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?
(a) Open communication.
(b) Being a little deaf sometimes.
(c) Being a yes man.
(d) Giving each other room to grow.

4. What does the speaker say familial communication always has to do with?
(a) Honest communication.
(b) Forced communication.
(c) A willingness to communicate.
(d) Failures to communicate.

5. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?
(a) He suffered panic attacks.
(b) He had a high fever for several days.
(c) He was having chest pains.
(d) He was depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?

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

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

4. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?

5. What symbol represents "the end of a unique familial phrase" (5)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the final words that remain unspoken, as shown by the use of the should-have brackets, between father and son in the final conversation of the story?

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

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

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

5. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.

6. What are the should-have brackets?

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

8. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?

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

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

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