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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. How early on in the marriage did the speaker's parents have their first fight?
2. While weeding, what did the speaker's father say had happened to his brother?
3. What were some things the speaker's father's doctor advised him against doing due to the emotional stress these things caused him?
4. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?
5. What does the original use of a lowpoint then to create?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?
2. What are the should-have brackets?
3. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
4. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
5. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?
6. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
7. What is one example the speaker gives of the use of a reversible colon?
8. 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?
9. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?
10. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the reversible colon? Explain the meaning of each sentence the speaker uses to exemplify the reversible colon and analyze what these statements tell the reader about the speaker's family.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the character's relationship with his family as revealed through their conversations.
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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