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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Emily bring flowers to her father's grave?
(a) He always loved Emily's flowers.
(b) She needs to do something to keep him alive.
(c) He doesn't have any gardens.
(d) She wants to show him respect.

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

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

4. What does Emily believe she was being when she wanted to be famous?
(a) Ambitious.
(b) Egocentric.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Gluttonous.

5. When did Emily and her mother become close?
(a) When she was a child.
(b) When Vinnnie moved out of the house.
(c) When her father died.
(d) When she had the stroke.

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

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

8. What does Emily ask the professor when they finally meet?
(a) Why he didn't publish her last poem.
(b) When he will be leaving.
(c) Where he will be staying.
(d) Why he took so long to visit.

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

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

11. Where was the last place Emily saw her father?
(a) When she went to the hospital.
(b) When she sent him on a walk with Austin.
(c) When she put him on the train.
(d) When she woke him up in the morning.

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

13. About what does Emily think will be some of the first things she will ask the professor?
(a) She will ask him which story will be published.
(b) She will ask him about his own writing.
(c) She will ask him about his wife .
(d) She will ask him how to improve her writing.

14. What animals did Emily's father keep?
(a) Horses.
(b) Cows.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Gilbert?

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

3. What does Emily comment about not understanding the excitement around?

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

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

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