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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. What are some things the speaker might be doing when he imagines his family's versions of the should-haves?
3. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?
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 phrase is an example a sentence never uttered by the speaker or any member of the speaker's family?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?
2. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?
3. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
4. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?
5. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
6. What are the should-have brackets?
7. 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?
8. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
9. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
10. What is one example the speaker gives of the use of a reversible colon?
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
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 3
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?
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