A Rose for Emily Quiz

Why did the four men cross into Miss Emily's yard after midnight?

• To clean the inside of her house due to the smell.

• To rob her house.

• To sprinkle lime in the cellar and outbuildings due to the smell.

• To see for themselves if the rumor about the smell was true.

How did Emily originally act when her father died?

• She left on vacation.

• She refused to acknowledge her father's death.

• She was stricken with grief.

• She went to the town for support.

What does Miss Emily purchase from the druggist?

• Arsenic

• Ajax

• Bleach

• Borax

What did Miss Emily claim the poison was for?

• Rats.

• Insects.

• Elephants.

• She refused to say.

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

• To show respect for a fallen monument

• Out of obligation to Miss Emily's family

• Out of curiosity to see the inside of her house

• Out of obligation to go with their husbands

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

• To show respect for a fallen monument

• Out of obligation to Miss Emily's family

• Out of curiosity to see the inside of her house

• Because their wives insisted

What caused the smell around Emily's house?

• a dead animal

• the trash piled up in the upstairs of the house

• Miss Emily's dead body

• Homer's rotting corpse

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

• Kill rats

• Kill her servant, Tobe

• Kill the tax collectors

• Kill herself

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

• A gray hair

• A handkerchief

• A rose

• Her father's watch

Why didn't Homer marry Emily?

• He was a Northerner

• The towns people did not approve of Homer

• Her father did not approve of Homer

• He liked men