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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 did the man continue to yell at the speaker's father in the example he uses of the extra exclamation point?
2. Who is the author of "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease"?
3. During what conversation with his father does the speaker say the silence mark most often appears?
4. Which punctuation mark does the speaker say is the "staple of familial punctuation"(1)?
5. What symbol represents the pedal point?
Short Essay Questions
1. What symbol represents the extraexclamation points?
2. What do readers learn of the grandmother's life in the first paragraph? Describe the context.
3. What is the insistent question mark? When is it used per the speaker's example?
4. How does the speaker's father engage with the angry man in the example he uses of the extra exclamation points?
5. How does the speaker describe his relationships with women?
6. What do we learn of the speaker's family health history in the first paragraph? Describe the context.
7. Which member of the family uses the pedal point most with the speaker? Why?
8. What conversation does the speaker use to exemplify the silence mark? To whom is he speaking? What is the subject of their conversation?
9. What symbol represents the pedal point? What does it mean? How is it different from an ellipses or dash?
10. How often does the speaker say the extra exclamation points are used in his family? Based on your understanding if his family, is this surprising? Explain.
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
Genre is a category assigned to a literary work, like a story. What are some genres that could be used to classify the story? What is the main genre of the story? Explain.
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