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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many heart attacks does the speaker say his family has "and counting" (1)?
2. What were the speaker and his father discussing on the phone when the silence mark was used as per his example?
3. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?
4. During what conversation with his father does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
5. What symbol represents the pedal point?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is yelling at the speaker's father and why in the example he uses of the extraexclamation points?
2. What conversation does the speaker use to exemplify the silence mark? To whom is he speaking? What is the subject of their conversation?
3. What is the insistent question mark? When is it used per the speaker's example?
4. What does the silence mark symbolize? How often does the speaker say it exists in his family's history?
5. What do readers learn of the grandmother's life in the first paragraph? Describe the context.
6. 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?
7. What is the unxclamation point symbol? What does it denote and when was it used per the speaker's example?
8. What is the extraunxclamation points? What does the speaker think of them?
9. What symbol represents the extraexclamation points?
10. Which member of the family uses the pedal point most with the speaker? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay examining the Holocaust as a symbol in "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." In what scenes is the Holocaust mentioned? What is the context? How does this develop the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Genre is a category assigned to a literary work, like a story. What are some genres that could be used to classify the story? What is the main genre of the story? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Foer of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying the story’s themes.
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