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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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which line below best tells the reader that Miss Emily was a great, noble and a impressive person?

• "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."
• When "Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral."

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is necrophilia? 

•  A mass of bought flowers at a funeral
• Being in love with a corpse
• Strong loyalty someone
• A terminal illness

Which dictionary definition represents the meaning of the word perpetuity in paragraph 3?
"...the dispensation [of taxes] dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity."

• Having limitations.
• An annuity paid for life.
• The condition of an estate limited so that it will not take effort.
• Endless or indefinitely long duration or existence; eternity. 

The word "august" in the text below means -
"But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores. 

• distinguished
• old
• summer
• forgotten

Which sentence best supports the idea that Miss Emily was in love with Homer?

• “...Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man’s toilet set, in silver, with the letters H.B.”
• “People in our town...believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were.”
• “At last they could pity Miss Emily.”
• “And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for sometime.”

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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

• It proves that Miss Emily was getting old.
• It suggests that Emily slept next to Homer’s dead body.
• 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.

In the opening of the story, what is the occasion?

• A wedding
• A funeral
• A lynching
• A dance

Where does the final scene take place?

• A graveyard
• The second floor of Emily's house
• On the lawn in front of Emily's house
• At the sheriff's office

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 construction worker
• he was a bachelor