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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 try to defend her writing?
(a) She calls it experimental.
(b) She calls it inspired.
(c) She calls it better than he can understand.
(d) She calls it beyond him.

2. Emily says that everyone is somewhere except who?
(a) Austin.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Emily.

3. Why doesn't Vinnie get to go visit her father?
(a) She did not want to see her father in such poor health.
(b) They get word he died before she can go.
(c) Emily has told her not to go at this time.
(d) She is afraid to travel away from Amherst.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long after Emily's father died did her mother become ill?

3. Why is Emily doubtful about Helen's intention?

4. How does Vinnie react?

5. In her vision what does Emily tell her mother to do before her father arrives for lunch?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is true about all of Emily's suitors?

3. When does Emily write?

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

5. What compliment does Emily give to the audience before she leaves?

6. What does Emily call death and life?

7. What does Emily watch and then translate?

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

9. What did one of Emily's friends write in his last letter to her before he died?

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

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