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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Austin doing that Vinnie doesn't object to which Emily finds odd because of her self-righteousness?
(a) Having an affair.
(b) Working outside of the home.
(c) Moving away from Amherst.
(d) Living in a different house.

3. What is Vinnie afraid of?
(a) Emily leaving with him.
(b) Emily won't meet with the man.
(c) He will hurt Emily.
(d) He will move into the house.

4. What does Emily offer to Professor HIgginson?
(a) Many more poems.
(b) A glass of lemonade.
(c) A slice of her cake.
(d) A place to stay.

5. In her vision what does Emily tell her mother to do before her father arrives for lunch?
(a) Go find his slippers and paper.
(b) Take the handkerchief from her head.
(c) Hide the mop and bucket.
(d) Take Buffy off of the chair.

6. How does Emily feel about the professor's reaction?
(a) She is angered.
(b) She is ashamed.
(c) She is relieved.
(d) She is crushed.

7. 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 tree.
(c) A stream of water.
(d) A bird in the garden.

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

9. What does Emily believe in that she wishes could have been tested before her father?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Life after death.
(c) Immortality.
(d) The existance of God.

10. How long after Emily's father died did her mother become ill?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 9 months.

11. How many nephews does Emily have?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

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

14. What does Emily believe happened to the poems she sent to Professor Higginson?
(a) They went directly to the trash can.
(b) They were sent to another publisher.
(c) They are in a dusty drawer somewhere.
(d) They have been burned.

15. Why doesn't Emily try to make conversation with Professor Higginson?
(a) She doesn't understand him.
(b) Her mind is only on publication.
(c) She is afraid of the man in person.
(d) Her father is watching over the meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the topic of the poem Emily relates after she talks about why people are afraid to let go?

2. How does Emily say she feels about being single?

3. Why doesn't Vinnie get to go visit her father?

4. Why did Emily's father hide himself as he fed the birds?

5. How does Emily say the world is when ones parents are gone?

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