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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. Emily feels that loving the way she does is what?

2. What word does Emily use that she feels the need to write down?

3. What about Sue causes Emily to feel the way she does?

4. How can Emily tell a poem?

5. Where was Emily going when she left her father for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Emily describe the time her family, including her mother, all lived together?

2. How long did Emily and Professor Higginson communicate and what happened to excite Emily?

3. How does Vinnie feel about Emily and how does this relate to how Emily's father feels about her?

4. What is Emily's rationale for not wanting to cross out passages?

5. How does Emily describe the house and her garden?

6. What does Emily indicate is the highest form of art?

7. What was it very difficult to do in relation to Emily's father and why was he the only member of the family allowed to do?

8. What does Emily do when she meets with Mr. Billings and how does he respond?

9. How do Emily's and Lavinia's views of autumn in New England differ?

10. What does Emily feel her published poems will bring?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens to Emily's ability to stay on topic and in the present throughout the play? What do you think the author is trying to show through this process? Do you think it is effective? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Emily's relationship with her father, Do you believe this relationship could be described as healthy or unhealthy? Why?

Essay Topic 3

This is a one person play. Do you feel the author was able to develop the other characters mentioned in the play through the character of Emily? Do you think the play would have been more effective or less effective with more characters? Why or why not?

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