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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Sue causes Emily to feel the way she does?
(a) Sue understands Emily's need to write.
(b) Sue is able to stand up for herself.
(c) Sue shows her affection for their father.
(d) Sue loves Austin as Emily does.

2. Which of the following is something that Emily does sometimes which surprises her neighbors?
(a) Moves the curtains.
(b) Leaves poems taped to the front door.
(c) Walks out into the yard and waves to them.
(d) Answers the door herself.

3. How does Emily think her father felt about Austin?
(a) She thinks he did not like Austin at all.
(b) She thinks he respected Austin above all others.
(c) She thinks he was ashamed of Austin.
(d) She thinks he did not understand Austin.

4. What does Emily offer to the audience?
(a) Tea cups.
(b) Copies of her poems.
(c) To read one of her poems.
(d) Cake slices.

5. What gift does Austin's father give him?
(a) A briefcase.
(b) A business.
(c) A house.
(d) A wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Emily get her middle name?

2. What does Emily says her friend Helen Jackson is?

3. How does Emily prefer to introduce herself?

4. Why does Emily say that she wears white all of the time?

5. Why does Emily say that she no longer uses her middle name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Emily's and Lavinia's views of autumn in New England differ?

2. How does Emily describe her relationship with Vinnie and how does Vinnie take care of Emily?

3. How does Emily say her mother felt about her?

4. What does Emily find amusing about her upcoming school year during the flashback?

5. What type of stories does Lavinia want to hear the most and what does she want to know about those stories?

6. How long did Emily and Professor Higginson communicate and what happened to excite Emily?

7. How does Emily tell the audience that she and Lavinia spend their evenings?

8. What distracts Emily that causes the mood of the play to change after the incident with Mr. Crowell?

9. How does Emily describe the house and her garden?

10. What would Emily's father do that would floor Emily?

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