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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 recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?
2. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?
3. How is this sentence spoken by the speaker's mother changed when the back up is used: "It pains me to think of you alone" (7).
4. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?
5. How early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
2. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?
3. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?
4. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
5. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
6. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?
7. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
8. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?
9. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?
10. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an analysis of the speaker's father's dream in the story. Describe the dream. What might it mean? Why did he tell his son about it? What might he have left out?
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
Pick a character from the story and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?
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