Why is the transaction between Miss Emily and the druggist ambiguous?

the audience does not know what Emily is using the poison for

the audience feels that Emily is demanding

the audience knows that the druggist is scared of her

the audience does not know what he sold her

Why did the townspeople think that Emily and Homer got married?

She bought him a nightshirt and a toiletry set

He proposed to her at a town meeting

What makes the minister's visit to Miss Emily ambiguous?

He refuses to go back to her house after his first visit

He refuses to officiate the marriage between Miss Emily and Homer

he refuses to sit in the same room as Miss Emily

he refuses to drive to Mississippi

What change took place in Miss Emily's relationship with the town for a period of several years when Miss Emily was in her forties?

She taught china painting lessons

She opened her house for friends to visit

What is the historical era of the story?

Reconstruction (after the Civil War)

Where does the final scene take place?

The second floor of Emily's house

On the lawn in front of Emily's house

Which describes one of the conflicts in the story 'A Rose for Emily'?

Man vs. Society: Emily refuses to pay the town's taxes

Man vs. Man: Miss Emily's Dad is a draft dodger

Man vs. Society: Emily isn't allowed to go to college because she is a woman

Man vs. Nature: Emily's house is very run down

How does the following dialogue add to Miss Emily's characterization? "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson... See Colonel Sartoris, (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) I have no taxes in Jefferson"

It shows she is delusional, and continues to live in the past

It shows she is really stubborn

It shows she has no respect for authority

What narration was used in this story?

2nd person- "We had long thought..."

3rd person- "So the next night.."

Which best describes the themes in the story?

Do one to others as you would have done to you

What does Emily's house symbolize?

Like Emily, the house is old and deteriorating both mentally and physically

The town being racist because its a slave plantation

The conflicts Emily has with the town's people

What is the irony in the story?

That everyone thinks Emily buys poison to kill herself but really she buys it to murder her ex boyfriend

That the story starts with Miss Emily dying

It is ironic that Emily doesn't care her father died

That William Faulkner did not own slaves

Identify the underlined vocabulary word using context clues: "That was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust."

impossible to disentangle or separate.

much bigger, greater in size than

Identify the underlined vocabulary word using context clues: "So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before the smell."

To invite inside in a friendly manner

Invited them to an intricate party

Which best describes the Man Vs. Society conflict in the story?

Emily is gossiped about and constantly judged by the townspeople because she doesn't follow basic conventions of society

Emily fights for her right to vote in the story

Emily doesn't have a husband so the townspeople judge her harshly

Emily fights for her right to vote in the story

A Rose for Emily 1st period

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A Rose for Emily 1st period

Why did the Board of Aldermen send a deputation to Miss Emily's house?

What complaints was Judge Stevens receiving about Miss Emily from the townspeople?

Which of the following is a motif (recurring element) in the story?

What do the town members finally do about "the smell"?

What is the name of Miss Emily's love interest?

Why did the townspeople disapprove of Miss Emily's relationship with Homer?

What does Miss Emily purchase from the druggist?

Why is the transaction between Miss Emily and the druggist ambiguous?

What did the townspeople think Miss Emily was going to do with the poison?

Why did the townspeople think that Emily and Homer got married?

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