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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 willed silence mark?
2. What punctuation is used the double question mark as its symbol?
3. Where was the narrator and his family during the only instance he recalls use of the extraexclamation point?
4. Where was the narrator's grandmother driving him to in the example he cites of her use of the unxclamation point?
5. Upon whom does the speaker often "inflict willed silences" (2)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the insistent question mark? When is it used per the speaker's example?
2. How did the exchange between the speaker's father and the stranger end? What conclusion did the father come to in regards to his handling of the situation?
3. What symbol indicates the willed silence mark? What does it signify?
4. What is the extraunxclamation points? What does the speaker think of them?
5. Who is yelling at the speaker's father and why in the example he uses of the extraexclamation points?
6. What do we learn of the speaker's family health history in the first paragraph? Describe the context.
7. What is the unxclamation point symbol? What does it denote and when was it used per the speaker's example?
8. How does the speaker describe his relationships with women?
9. Which member of the family uses the pedal point most with the speaker? Why?
10. What symbol represents the extraexclamation points?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Foer’s focus on the theme of familial communication as presented in the story.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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