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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 recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?
2. What does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?
3. What phrase is an example a sentence never uttered by the speaker or any member of the speaker's family?
4. What example does the speaker use as a familial conversation in which one party understands the words but not the meaning?
5. Why does the speaker think he has become a yes man?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
2. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?
3. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
4. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?
5. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
6. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
7. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?
8. 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?
9. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?
10. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine how the theme of inherited trauma plays a part in the plot of the story.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Foer’s focus on the theme of familial communication as presented in the story.
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