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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emily confide in the audience about being famous?
(a) She confides that she doesn't know what it means to be famous.
(b) She confides that she still wants to be famous.
(c) She confides that she had a few famous moments.
(d) She confides that she could not handle being famous.

2. How does Emily feel about the boy that ran away from Amherst?
(a) She thinks it is awful.
(b) She thinks it is surprising.
(c) She thinks it is wonderful.
(d) She thinks it is shocking.

3. How did Emily react when her mother died?
(a) She could not accept it.
(b) She was angry.
(c) She was relieved.
(d) She was stunned.

4. What does Emily remember about Austin at her father's funeral?
(a) She remembers him being unable to speak.
(b) She remembers that he did not attend.
(c) She remembers him leaving quickly.
(d) She remembers him kissing her father's forehead.

5. What is the topic of the poem Emily relates after she talks about why people are afraid to let go?
(a) Her body's machinery.
(b) The birds in the garden.
(c) Death and the process of dying.
(d) The impact of nature.

6. What state does Emily indicate the house was in when her father was alive?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Relaxation.
(c) Fear.
(d) Pandemonium.

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

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

9. How does Vinnie treat Emily since their father died?
(a) Like her father.
(b) As if she doesn't exist.
(c) Like a child.
(d) Like her mother.

10. What does Emily think would be necessary for her family to stop crying over her father's death?
(a) If they received a sign from him.
(b) If they knew his father was aware of how they tend his grave.
(c) If they had gotten to see him one last time.
(d) If they could have seen his body before it was buried.

11. Why can't Emily reveal the man's name?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He is famous.
(c) He is married.
(d) He required it.

12. When Emily tires of talking about the serious subject of her parents and death, what does she wish to be?
(a) A blade of grass.
(b) A stream of water.
(c) A bird in the garden.
(d) A tree.

13. Where does Vinnie go to get help?
(a) To the neighbor's house.
(b) No where, just to her room.
(c) To Austin and Sue's house.
(d) To her father's study.

14. How did Emily come to realize that her life would change and that her father was ill?
(a) Her father called her to tell her himself.
(b) She could tell by the look on Austin's face.
(c) She had a vision while she was sleeping.
(d) Vinnie breaks the news to Emily.

15. What does Emily do with the man?
(a) She leaves with him.
(b) She sends him away.
(c) She asks him to wait for her.
(d) She refuses to meat with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between who was Gilbert planning on giving his admission prices?

2. What is Emily doing as she is waiting?

3. What does Emily practice while she is waiting?

4. Why did Vinnie become hysterical when the judge proposed to Emily?

5. What was Gilbert's last declaration?

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