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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the speaker call the severed web symbol?
(a) An Inadequately Worded Idiom.
(b) A Scarcely Salvageable Sentence.
(c) A Hardly Acceptable Replacement.
(d) A Barely Tolerable Subsitute.
2. What is the subject of the discussion the speaker uses to exemplify use of the low point?
(a) His lack of a good job.
(b) His lack of a girlfriend.
(c) His depression.
(d) His inability to community with candor.
3. What does the speaker acknowledge about the should-have brackets in the final paragraph of the story?
(a) They are used more often between him and his father.
(b) Each family member's sense of the should-haves is different.
(c) They are used less frequently among his family members lately.
(d) They rarely exist in conversations between himself and his brother.
4. What were the speaker and his father recently doing, despite his father's doctor telling him not to?
(a) Pulling weeds.
(b) Lifting weights.
(c) Running.
(d) Stacking wood.
5. What symbol represents the "backup"?
(a) A right arrow.
(b) A left arrow.
(c) An upright arrow.
(d) An upside down arrow.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the speaker think he has become a yes man?
2. What does the original use of a lowpoint then to create?
3. Why did the speaker's brother go to the university health center a few weeks ago?
4. What life changing event was going to happen to the speaker's brother a few weeks after the speaker and his father were weeding?
5. When is the reversible colon used?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
2. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?
3. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?
4. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
5. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
6. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?
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 conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
9. What is one example the speaker gives of the use of a reversible colon?
10. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?
This section contains 892 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
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