A Rose for Emily & A Good Man

What is the irony behind Emily purchasing arsenic with the label reading "Arsenic -For Rats?"

• Emily turned out to actually have a rat infestation.
• Emily became the rat she sought to kill.
• Rats are immune to arsenic, but humans are not.
• Emily thought of Homer as a rat.

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

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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Why does Tobe stay with Emily?

• He needs a job 
• They're in love
• He is loyal to her
• She is paying him

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

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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

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

• He proposed to her at a town meeting
• She bought him a nightshirt and a toiletry set
• He moved in with her
• She moved away to be with him

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Who has the face "as broad and innocent as a cabbage"?

• The baby's mom

• Grandma

• Bailey

• June Star

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"In case of an accident, anyone would seeing her dead on the highway would know at once she was _______________."

• a Christian

• a woman with good blood

• a good mother

• a lady

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The family was driving to ___________ from _______________.

• Florida/Atlanta

• East Tennessee/Georgia

• Florida/East Tennessee

• Georgia/Florida

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