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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 stroms out of the room before he can finish.
(b) She becomes mute.
(c) She doesn't believe it.
(d) She becomes angry.

2. Who was the other poet that Mr. Higginson crushed?
(a) Poe.
(b) Browning.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Frost.

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

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

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

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

7. What did Vinnie refuse to acknowledge that happened on the fourth of July?
(a) A fire.
(b) Austin's fight with Sue.
(c) The death of the cat.
(d) Her mother's death.

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

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

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

11. How does Emily describe the house now that just she and Vinnie live there?
(a) Empty.
(b) Too big.
(c) Happier.
(d) Quiet.

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

13. What did Gilbert equate with his home?
(a) The garden.
(b) His school.
(c) Emily's house.
(d) His friend's house.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Emily reveal the man's name?

2. What does Emily say about a publisher when talking to the professor?

3. What is Austin doing that Vinnie doesn't object to which Emily finds odd because of her self-righteousness?

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

5. How does Emily think Vinnie responded to Emily's statement that Emily would also like to run away?

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