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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 does the narrator's father attribute to his successful marriage?
2. What does the father say in should have brackets to Jonathan about his dreams during the final conversation in the story?
3. Which member of the speaker's family do you attribute this sentence to: "I didn't die in the Holocaust, but all of my siblings did, so where does that leave me" (5)?
4. What phrase can the low point replace?
5. What recurring dreams did the speaker's father have?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are low points? What conversation between the speaker and his mother does he use to exemplify their use?
2. What does the speaker realize about himself after his father discusses how his brother was already a yes man?
3. What did the speaker's brother learn after first experiencing chest pains and ultimately ending up in intensive care?
4. Describe the snowflake and when it might be used.
5. Why did the speaker's father's doctor advise against pulling weeds? What other things did he advice against?
6. What does the severed web symbolize? What does the speaker call this?
7. What is something the speaker and his brother do not discuss? How do you know?
8. What are the should-have brackets?
9. Describe the conversation the speaker relays between mother and father to show use of the corroboration mark.
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a brief essay analyzing the title "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease." Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss Foer’s focus on the theme of familial communication as presented in the story.
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