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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 did Gilbert do when he was six with a friend?
(a) Make a lemonade stand.
(b) Write his first poem.
(c) Planned his first trip away from Amherst.
(d) Put on an animal show on the front lawn.

2. What does this person waiting for Emily in the library want?
(a) To publish Emily's poem.
(b) To talk to her father.
(c) To marry Vinnie.
(d) To marry Emily.

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

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

5. What does Emily take downstairs with her when she hears the professor's coach pull up?
(a) Her sister's cat.
(b) A copy of the letters he wrote to her.
(c) The sewing she was working on.
(d) Her whole box of poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the last place Emily saw her father?

2. What does Helen believe is true about Emily's current attitude about being published?

3. What does Emily try to explain to Vinnie about the man?

4. What did Emily's rye and Indian bread win?

5. What doesn't Emily understand about Vinnie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who disapproved of Emily and the judge and who caused more problems?

2. What did Emily and her family wonder as Gilbert made his last declaration before dying?

3. Who is Emily's only one true love?

4. With what does Emily tell the audience that she promised to help Vinnie?

5. What does Emily watch and then translate?

6. What does Emily promise to give to the audience the next time they visit?

7. What does Emily tell the audience about her heart and about why Wadsworth won't visit again?

8. What does Emily tell Wadsworth on his last visit to Amherst?

9. After talking about Gilbert, what does Emily talk about that seems like random thoughts?

10. What kind of flowers does Emily say she would want on her grave when she dies?

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