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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emily prefer to introduce herself?
(a) As a resident of Amherst.
(b) By her family name.
(c) As a woman.
(d) As a poet.

2. How many Valentines did Emily receive in the flashback?
(a) 20.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 0.

3. Why does Emily indicate she might be frightened?
(a) She heard a strange noise off stage.
(b) She was just had a visitor that left her unsettled
(c) She doesn't like the spotlight.
(d) She is not used to strangers.

4. Which of the following was not one of Mary Lyon's classifications for students?
(a) Group without hope.
(b) Professed Christians.
(c) Group with hope.
(d) Converted Christians.

5. How can Emily tell a poem?
(a) When others understand it.
(b) When she can no longer stand to read it.
(c) When she has a physical reaction to it.
(d) When she has found the perfect words.

6. When did Emily decide to stop attending church?
(a) When her brother moved out.
(b) When she was 30.
(c) When she was finished with school.
(d) When her father died.

7. 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.

8. What does Emily believe her father's gift to Austin was described to do?
(a) Tie Austin to his father forever.
(b) Ensure the family was never apart.
(c) Keep Austin close to home.
(d) Help provide for Austin and his new bride.

9. What did Austin going to school have to do with Emily staying home?
(a) Her father couldn't afford to pay for two children to go to school.
(b) She believes her father couldn't handle more than one child away at one time.
(c) Austin earned better grades than Emily ever earned.
(d) Men were supposed to go to school, while girls were not.

10. How is Emily known in Amherst?
(a) Poet extraordinare.
(b) Quiet writing girl.
(c) Half cracked daughter.
(d) Little Libby.

11. Which of the following is an accurate description of how Emily refers to her father's sister?
(a) The only female who can take on the male relatives.
(b) The only male on the female side of the relatives.
(c) The only male relative to become a female.
(d) The only female relative who wished to become a male.

12. What does Emily do to encourage her neighbors' curiosity?
(a) Hides behind hats and veils.
(b) Peeks at the neighbors through their windows.
(c) Sends her neighbors poems through the mail.
(d) Runs through the house.

13. What does Emily worry about in regards to her brother Austin?
(a) She worries he believes she is losing her mind.
(b) She worries she is causing him distress.
(c) She worries he is the target of her antics.
(d) She worries he will disown her.

14. Which of the following is how Emily describes the path between the two houses?
(a) Just wide enough for 2 lovers.
(b) Narrow enough to pass items across the windows.
(c) So close one could hear the happenings in the other house.
(d) Barely wide enough to walk through.

15. How did Austin and his father act when they were separate?
(a) As devoted friends.
(b) They would refuse to talk to each other.
(c) As if the other did not exist.
(d) They would fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emily say her neighbors do to try and get a look at her?

2. How many classifications did Mary Lyon have for her students?

3. What does Emily ask from the audience?

4. What do Emily's neighbors compare to decide who received the strangest?

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

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