Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily is a ..............

• modernist story

• classical story

• rationalist story

• naturalist story

Modernism is a literary trend based on:

• chronological order, individualism, symbolism, and imagism.

• experimentalism, figures of speech, stream of consciousness, and imagism.

• stream of consciousness, experimentalism, symbolism, and imagism.

• stream of consciousness, individualism, symbolism, and imagism.

The motivation behind Ms. Emily’s killing for Homer Barron:

• she is mentally insane.

• Homer Barron killed her father.

• Homer Barron laughed at her.

• Miss Emily loved Homer Barron, but he rejected her.

Which sentence best describes how the author uses point of view in the selection?

• The author uses a third-person point of view and a single narrator to limit insight into the actions of

• The author uses a first-person singular point of view and a single narrator to show how the narrator misinterprets Miss Emily.

• The author uses a third-person point of view and a shifting narrator to demonstrate how Miss Emily

  personally feels about her changes.

• The author uses a first-person plural point of view and a shifting narrator to show the way the town collectively perceives Miss Emily.

From the selection, what can the reader infer about Miss Emily’s relationship with her father?

• His dominance of her left her temporarily unable to function without him.

• His cruelty to her made it impossible for her to trust other people.

• His lack of understanding made her unable to form relationships with others.

• His possessiveness left her too afraid to attempt to find a husband.

What is the effective inference drawn from this quotation: ‘There is a stuffy smell coming from Miss Emily’s house.’

• Ms Emily is becoming old and she is not able to clean her house anymore.

• Ms Emily is becoming poor after the death of her father and she cannot afford for workers.

• Ms Emily killed somebody.

• There were dead rats and snakes in her garden.

Read these sentences from the story:

The Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn’t come back. When she opened the

package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: “For rats.”

The author included these sentences most likely to —

• show that the druggist did not do the smaller tasks in his shop

• illustrate that Miss Emily intimidated the druggist

• imply that the druggist had other things with which to attend

• emphasize that the druggist did not trust Miss Emily

Which two inferences can be made about the characters in the selection?

• Colonel Sartoris helped Miss Emily because he loved her.

• Miss Emily saw herself as being above paying taxes.

• Miss Emily removed the object that was causing the smell.

• Most of the townspeople had more money than Miss Emily.

• The townspeople came to Miss Emily’s funeral more out of curiosity than respect.

Read this excerpt from ‘A Rose for Emily’:

Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it.

Which of these is the author likely suggesting in this excerpt?

• The town’s respect for proper etiquette was more powerful than their curiosity concerning Miss Emily.

• Tobe had been secretly communicating with the townspeople over the years in an effort to escape

  the household.

• Tobe’s conscience was guilty because of his role in covering up the truth.

• The town was ashamed to take certain actions in the presence of Miss Emily.

Which line from the selection provides the best example of attitudes toward women's behavior in the South at that time?

• When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction.

• So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell.

• Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people.

• By that time, it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily’s allies to help circumvent the cousins.