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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 phrase is an example a sentence never uttered by the speaker or any member of the speaker's family?
2. What does the severed web mean, approximately?
3. What discussion between the speaker's father and mother does he use to exemplify the corroboration mark?
4. What symbol represents "the end of a unique familial phrase" (5)?
5. When is the reversible colon used?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
2. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?
3. What are the should-have brackets?
4. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
5. Describe the phone call between the speaker and his brother after he ended up in intensive care.
6. What does the speaker's father confess to him about his marriage after his 19th heart attack?
7. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?
8. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
9. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?
10. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
The speaker's grandmother once told him that she hopes he never loves anyone as much as she loves him. Write an analysis of this line. Include her backstory and how her experience may have led her to this moment.
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