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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 example does the speaker use of the should have brackets when his father asks him if he hears static in the phone?
2. What does the speaker say low points tend to do in his communication with family?
3. How many heart attacks has the speaker's father suffered?
4. What symbol represents "the low point" in the speaker's familial communication?
5. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?
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 are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?
3. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?
4. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
5. 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?
6. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?
7. What is one example the speaker gives of the use of a reversible colon?
8. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?
9. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
10. What are the should-have brackets?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a brief essay analyzing the title "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the ways in which "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" defies literary conventions.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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