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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emily feel about what she hears from the professor?
(a) She becomes mute.
(b) She stroms out of the room before he can finish.
(c) She doesn't believe it.
(d) She becomes angry.

2. Emily says that everyone is somewhere except who?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Emily.
(d) Austin.

3. What does Emily believe has happened to her existence?
(a) It has blossomed.
(b) It has stopped.
(c) It has be redefined.
(d) It has opened.

4. What does Professor HIgginson say about Emily's poetry?
(a) Her writing is uninventive.
(b) Her meter is spasmodic and uncontrolled.
(c) Her poetry lacks depth and meaning.
(d) Her choice of topics is confusing and dated.

5. What happened to Emily's mother when she became ill?
(a) She had a stroke and could no longer walk.
(b) She had a heart attack and died.
(c) She lost her will to live because of the loss of her husband.
(d) She lost her mind and was hard to care for.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this person waiting for Emily in the library want?

2. How long after Emily's father died did her mother become ill?

3. What does Emily believe about the birds who now live in her garden?

4. What did Gilbert equate with his home?

5. Who does want to publish Emily's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What funeral process does Emily describe for herself?

2. How does Emily characterize the people that should listen to her poems, like Mr. Higginson?

3. What did Abby Farly say about Emily after the judge died?

4. What does Emily promise to give to the audience the next time they visit?

5. Who is Emily's only one true love?

6. What did one of Emily's friends write in his last letter to her before he died?

7. What does Emily tell Vinnie when Vinnie tells her not to talk about her own death?

8. When does Emily write?

9. What does Emily call death and life?

10. What is true about all of Emily's suitors?

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