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

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

• they cleaned her house for her

• Judge Stevens made her move out

• sprinkle lime around her house

• Tobe, her servant, stopped killing rats in the yard.

What does Miss Emily purchase from the druggist?

• Ajax
• Borax
• Bleach
• Arsenic

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

• Kill rats
• Kill herself
• Kill her servant, Tobe
• Kill her cousins

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
• She began dating again
• She gave tours of her house 

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

• Homer Simpson
• Homer Illiad
• Homer Barron
• Homer Odyssey

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

What does the narrator find on the pillow at the end of the short story? 

• A gray hair 
• A rose
• A handkerchief 
• Her father's watch

Why do most women in the town go to Miss Emily's funeral?

• To show respect for a fallen monument

• Out of obligation

• Out of curiosity to see the inside of her house

• Most women do not attend funerals

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Why do most of the men in town go to Miss Emily's funeral?

• To show respect for a fallen monument

• Out of obligation

• Out of curiosity to see the inside of her house

• Most men do not attend funerals

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