A Rose for Emily

What caused the smell around Emily's house?

• a dead animal

• the trash piled outside and around the home

• Emily's dead body

• Homer's rotting corpse

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Which line below best tells the reader that the Grierson name was of a southern aristocratic status?

• "We really must do something about it judge. I'd be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we've got to do something."

• "But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood: only Miss Emily's house was left."

• "Not that miss Emily would have accepted charity."

• But there were still others, older people, who siad that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige.

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Define macabre

• a quiet hissing noise

• disturbing or horrifying image depicting death or dead bodies

• to tell or give information

• a group of people with common interests

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The theme of Willam Faulkner's short story, A Rose for Emily, is best summed up by which of the following?

• One should refuse to give up old fashion values

• Never take no as an answer from your lover

• Family always has your best intentions

• If one refuses to adapt and embrace the future, he/she will fade away with the past

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Define archaic

• old or outdated

• a type of arrow

• a person from the North

• cousins who visit from Alabama

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Miss Emily refused to be jilted by her lover. What is the best meaning of the word jilted?

• abandoned by a lover

• to have never found love

• someone who abandons his/her lover

• someone who refuses the love of someone else

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The image of the gray hair on the pillow is significant because -

• It proves that Miss Emily was getting old.

• It reveals the gruesome act Emily has committed.

• It shows that Emily is losing her hair due to the stress in her life.

• It draws the reader closer to the mystery of Miss Emily’s servant.

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What is the occasion taking place in the beginning of the story?

• a wedding

• a funeral

• a dinner party

• a dance

Emily's father could best be described as which of the following?

• loving and caring

• controlling, selfish

• aloof and disengaged from Emily

• lonely and isolated

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

• He was too good looking for her.

• He was a Yankee.

• He was a gay.

• He was a bachelor.

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