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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emily say she feels about being single?
(a) She wants to find her own man.
(b) She accepts her life for what it is.
(c) She still wishes she had found a man.
(d) She has tremenndous regrets.

2. Who does Vinnie carry letters to for Austin?
(a) Professor Todd's wife.
(b) Judge Lord.
(c) Helen.
(d) Abby Farley.

3. What is Emily waiting for at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Her brother's wife to have her baby.
(b) Professor Higginson's arrival.
(c) Her first published poem.
(d) Her father's return to the house.

4. What does the town gossip say about Vinnie in relation to marriage?
(a) That she gave up marriage to take care of Emily.
(b) That she has never been with a man and prefers women.
(c) That her father forbid her to be married.
(d) That she was married and killed her husband.

5. What does Helen believe is true about Emily's current attitude about being published?
(a) It is ambitious.
(b) It is selfish.
(c) It is egocentric.
(d) It is gluttonous.

6. What realization does Emily come to about how the professor feels about her writing?
(a) She comes to understnad that he needs to be convinced.
(b) She comes to understand that he is holding back.
(c) She comes to understand that he needs encouragment.
(d) She comes to understand that he doesn't think she's good enough.

7. What does Emily try to explain to Vinnie about the man?
(a) She will not meet with the man.
(b) She planned to run away with him.
(c) She didn't know he was coming.
(d) She wanted to meet him.

8. What does Emily reminisce about her father coming to?
(a) Her poetry reading.
(b) Her wedding.
(c) Home for lunch.
(d) Her first publication party.

9. How does Emily describe the descendants of the birds her father saved?
(a) Heartbroken.
(b) Content.
(c) Resigned.
(d) Saddened.

10. What did Emily do the afternoon of the day her father died?
(a) She spent the entire afternoon with him.
(b) She spent the afternoon with her lover.
(c) She spent the afternoon in her room writing.
(d) She spent the afternoon with her brother's wife.

11. What does Emily believe about the birds who now live in her garden?
(a) They are waiting for her father to come back to them.
(b) They are the same birds as her father fed so long ago.
(c) They are waiting for her to feed them.
(d) They are the decendents of the ones her father fed.

12. What does Emily comment about not understanding the excitement around?
(a) Winters in Vermont.
(b) Visitng Europe.
(c) Founding a college.
(d) Mona Lisa painting.

13. Why did Vinnie become hysterical when the judge proposed to Emily?
(a) He wanted Vinnie to marry him too.
(b) He Refused to let Emily see her family.
(c) He was 18 years older than Emily.
(d) He wanted Emily to move to another town.

14. How does Emily say she spends her days?
(a) Wondering where her father is.
(b) Trying to write about her feelings at this time.
(c) Sitting and watching the birds.
(d) Waiting for her father to return.

15. What does Emily take downstairs with her when she hears the professor's coach pull up?
(a) Her whole box of poems.
(b) A copy of the letters he wrote to her.
(c) Her sister's cat.
(d) The sewing she was working on.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is her father in Emily's mind?

2. Emily wonders why people are afraid to let go of what?

3. What does Emily believe in that she wishes could have been tested before her father?

4. When did Austin bring the letter to the family about their father?

5. What did Vinnie refuse to acknowledge that happened on the fourth of July?

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