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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 symbol represents "the low point" in the speaker's familial communication?
2. What phrase can the low point replace?
3. What symbol represents the "backup"?
4. In the final conversation in the story, what is Jonathan's response to his father's {I love you}?
5. The speaker uses a conversation between himself and which relative as an example of the low point?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
2. What is one example the speaker gives of the use of a reversible colon?
3. What are the should-have brackets?
4. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?
5. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?
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. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
9. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
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 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.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Examine how the theme of inherited trauma plays a part in the plot of the story.
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