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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 Emily offer to the audience?

2. Why does Emily say that she no longer uses her middle name?

3. How can Emily tell a poem?

4. In what year did Emily leave her father for the first time?

5. What does Emily leave with the cakes she bakes for her neighbors?

Short Essay Questions

1. During Emily's flashback to her teenage years, what does Mr. Crowell ask the class to do and how does Emily respond?

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

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

4. How and when does Emily enjoy the circus?

5. What type of stories does Lavinia want to hear the most and what does she want to know about those stories?

6. What relationship did Emily have with Professor Higginson?

7. How does Emily describe her relationship with Vinnie and how does Vinnie take care of Emily?

8. How does Emily feel about Jennie after the death of her mother and what are Emily's views on death?

9. What distracts Emily that causes the mood of the play to change after the incident with Mr. Crowell?

10. What information does Emily share about Vinne and his cat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you believe Emily wants to be famous so much? Do you think it is important to be famous? 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

How much of what Emily complains about or upsets her do you think she has made up in her own head? Why do you think Emily does this? Do you think she is mentally ill? Why or why not?

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