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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 did the narrator's father realize after his first fight with his wife?
3. What is the speaker's response to "Jonathan" when followed by a pedal point in the example he uses?
4. What does the speaker acknowledge about the should-have brackets in the final paragraph of the story?
5. What did the speaker call his brother and say after finding out he was in intensive care?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
2. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
3. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
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 are the should-have brackets?
7. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
8. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?
9. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?
10. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Examine how the theme of inherited trauma plays a part in the plot of the story.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." Who is he? What else has he written? How is "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" similar or different from his other works?
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