English Exam

Who wrote the story “The Sculptor’s Funeral”?

• Cather

• Glaspell

• Hurston

• Faulkner

Where did Willa Cather graduate college from?

• University of Virginia

• University of Nebraska

• Notre Dame University

• University of Illinois

Who did Willa Cather not include in her vision of the United States?

• The Upper Class

• European Immigrants

• Californians

• Native Americans and African Americans

What are the townspeople looking at in the quote, “The townspeople drew back enough to make room for it and then formed a close semicircle about it looking curiously at the palm-leaf which lay across the black cover.” (700)?

• A covered car parked in the alley

• The maids gown laying on the porch

• Harvey Merricks coffin

• A dead animal in the road

The quote, “[She] used to whale him with a rawhide in the barn for lettin' the cows git foundered in the cornfield when he was drivin' 'em home from pasture.” (706), is describing Harvey’s mother.

• True

• False

Which of the following statements about William Faulkner is true?

• Faulkner's writing success allowed him to avoid working in other industries, such as Hollywood screenwriting.

• Faulkner refined the Southern Gothic genre and often wrote about the decline of Southern aristocracy.
  

• Faulkner's family gained wealth after the Civil War, allowing him to travel extensively in Europe.

• Faulkner completed his high school education before pursuing a career in writing.

[He] . . . remitted her taxes . . .” (998). Who is “He” and what play did this come from?

• Colonel Sartoris, A Rose for Emily

• Harvey Maverick, The Sculptor’s Funeral

• Otis Slemons, The Gilded Six Bits

• Colonel Sartoris, The Sculptor's Funeral

What fictional setting did William Faulkner create based on his upbringing in Mississippi?

• Jefferson County

• Yoknapatawpha County

• Maycomb County

• Macon County

What work did William Faulkner write?

• Trifles

• The Sculptor's Funeral

• The Gilded Six Bits

• A Rose for Emily

I want arsenic.” (1001) Was said by who in what play?

• Minnie Wright, Trifles

• Annie Merrick, The Sculptor’s Funeral

• Emily Grierson, A Rose for Emily

• Missie May, The Gilded Six Bits