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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 do with the man?

2. When the time shifts to the garden, who comes to the house Emily?

3. What does Emily believe happened to the poems she sent to Professor Higginson?

4. What realization does Emily come to about how the professor feels about her writing?

5. Emily wonders why people are afraid to let go of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What funeral process does Emily describe for herself?

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

4. What does Emily tell the audience about her heart and about why Wadsworth won't visit again?

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

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

7. What does Emily remind the audience about making her cake?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you believe Emily sees herself in the same way as the audience? Why or why not? How would you describe Emily?

Essay Topic 2

In what way is this play about Emily's ability to balance reality and fantasy? Do you think Emily is lucid throughout most of the play? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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

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