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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. The narrator says he has never had sex with whom?
2. What shape symbolizes the silence mark?
3. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?
4. What was the speaker's grandmother listening to in the car in the example he uses of the unxclamation point?
5. What does the pedal point signify?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do readers learn of the grandmother's life in the first paragraph? Describe the context.
2. What is the unxclamation point symbol? What does it denote and when was it used per the speaker's example?
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 symbol represents the extraexclamation points?
6. What conversation does the speaker use to exemplify the silence mark? To whom is he speaking? What is the subject of their conversation?
7. Which member of the family uses the pedal point most with the speaker? Why?
8. What symbol indicates the willed silence mark? What does it signify?
9. How often does the speaker say the extra exclamation points are used in his family? Based on your understanding if his family, is this surprising? Explain.
10. How does the speaker's father engage with the angry man in the example he uses of the extra exclamation points?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Read a review of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay comparing and contrasting the speaker and his father in "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." What details help develop their character and what do these details tell you about them? How do they interact? In what ways are they similar or different? Explain.
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