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

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

3. When the time shifts to the garden, who comes to the house Emily?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Sue.
(d) A man.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does want to publish Emily's work?

2. What does Emily believe about the birds who now live in her garden?

3. How does Vinnie react?

4. What does Emily practice while she is waiting?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Emily say about herself when the audience is shocked after learning about her suitors?

3. Why doesn't Emily write as much poetry as she used to?

4. What funeral process does Emily describe for herself?

5. How does Emily say that she loved Wadsworth, and what does she tell the audience about this love?

6. How does Emily characterize the people that should listen to her poems, like Mr. Higginson?

7. After she fainted, Emily asks herself what about Gilbert's and her parents' graves?

8. What does Emily tell Vinnie when Vinnie tells her not to talk about her own death?

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

10. What happened to Emily about eight weeks ago?

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