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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. What was the weather like when the narrator's grandmother was driving him somewhere in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
2. What symbol represents the pedal point?
3. What does the narrator say he has never had with any member of his family?
4. What symbol represents the unxclamation point?
5. What does the willed silence mark signify?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the silence mark symbolize? How often does the speaker say it exists in his family's history?
2. What do we learn of the speaker's family health history in the first paragraph? Describe the context.
3. How does the speaker describe his relationships with women?
4. Which member of the family uses the pedal point most with the speaker? Why?
5. How does the speaker's father engage with the angry man in the example he uses of the extra exclamation points?
6. What do readers learn of the grandmother's life in the first paragraph? Describe the context.
7. 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?
8. Who is yelling at the speaker's father and why in the example he uses of the extraexclamation points?
9. When does the speaker most often use the willed silence mark?
10. What is the insistent question mark? When is it used per the speaker's example?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the reversible colon? Explain the meaning of each sentence the speaker uses to exemplify the reversible colon and analyze what these statements tell the reader about the speaker's family.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the speaker's depression in Foer's "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease."
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the ways in which "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" defies literary conventions.
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