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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 does Emily confide in the audience about being famous?
(a) She confides that she had a few famous moments.
(b) She confides that she could not handle being famous.
(c) She confides that she doesn't know what it means to be famous.
(d) She confides that she still wants to be famous.

2. What does Emily deride herself for thinking?
(a) That she would become famous.
(b) That Professor Higginson liked her.
(c) That she could leave her house.
(d) That she was a poet.

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

4. How does Vinnie react?
(a) She makes the man leave.
(b) She faints.
(c) She hits Emily.
(d) She screams.

5. Who does want to publish Emily's work?
(a) Sue.
(b) Professor Higginson.
(c) Helen.
(d) Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emily practice while she is waiting?

2. What does Emily reminisce about her father coming to?

3. What does Professor HIgginson say about Emily's poetry?

4. What does Emily say about a publisher when talking to the professor?

5. What does Emily tell Helen about being published?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How many times did Emily speak to Wadsworth and when did they occur?

5. What funeral process does Emily describe for herself?

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

7. What is Emily's father's job when Emily was 24 and where do they visit him?

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

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

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

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