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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emily ask from the audience?

2. About how old was Emily when Austin finished law school?

3. Which of the following is a good description of Emily?

4. How does Emily feel about the fact that she confounds her neighbors?

5. Which of the following was not one of Mary Lyon's classifications for students?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What two emotions did Emily feel about Professor Higginson's visit and what caused her fear?

3. How does Emily describe the time her family, including her mother, all lived together?

4. What information does Emily share about Vinne and his cat?

5. During Emily's flashback to her teenage years, what does Mr. Crowell ask the class to do and how does Emily respond?

6. What is Emily's rationale for not wanting to cross out passages?

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

8. What did Emily and some of the other girls at her school form and what was the first thing they were going to do?

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

10. What would Lavinia do that her father disapproved of and what did he tell her to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This is a one person play. Do you feel the author was able to develop the other characters mentioned in the play through the character of Emily? Do you think the play would have been more effective or less effective with more characters? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you believe Emily wants to be famous so much? Do you think it is important to be famous? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Emily was asked by several men to marry them, yet she claims to have only one love. How do you explain Emily's romantic situations? Do you approve of how Emily handled the situations? Why or why not?

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