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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 does the severed web mean, approximately?
2. What discussion between the speaker's father and mother does he use to exemplify the corroboration mark?
3. What does the speaker acknowledge about the should-have brackets in the final paragraph of the story?
4. 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).
5. What does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?
2. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
3. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
4. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?
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. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?
7. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
8. What is one example the speaker gives of the use of a reversible colon?
9. What are the should-have brackets?
10. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Foer's language style and word choice in "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." What are some words or phrases that stand out to you and why? What words or phrases are repeated? What words or phrases are most impactful? Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Foer’s focus on the theme of familial communication as presented in the story.
Essay Topic 3
Examine how the theme of inherited trauma plays a part in the plot of the story.
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