Unit 6 Assessment

Which element of Gothic literature does the following quote fall under? *No clue about Colonel’s death* “See Colonel Sartoris.” (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.)” (14)

• Grotesque
• Morbid
• Delusional

Which element of Gothic literature does the following quote fall under? *Miss Emily buys rat poison but does not say why. “I want arsenic…Miss Emily just stared at him…[he] got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (34-42).

• Delusional
• Mysterious
• Unrequited love

Which element of Gothic literature does the following quote fall under? “Then we said “she will persuade him yet,” because Homer himself had remarked that he was not a marrying man.(43)

• Mentally ill
• Oppressed
• Unrequited Love

What does the description of the setting in paragraph 2 tell the reader about the economic conditions in the town? It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies,1 set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused2 cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.

• The town is trying to erase an image of poverty that has remained from the past.
• The town was quite prosperous at one time, but it has since lost much of its wealth.
• The town’s wealth is in the hands of only a few people, with the majority living in poverty.
• The town’s leaders have worked to prevent its residents from being affected by poverty.

Read this excerpt from paragraph 42. 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 most likely includes these details to —

• show that the druggist doesn’t deliver products
• illustrate that Miss Emily intimidates the druggist
• imply that the druggist has other things to attend to
• emphasize that the druggist does not respect Miss Emily

Read this excerpt from paragraph 56. 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. What is the author likely suggesting in this excerpt?

• The townspeople are ashamed to take certain actions in the presence of Miss Emily.
• The townspeople’s respect for proper etiquette is more powerful than their curiosity.
• Tobe has been secretly communicating with the townspeople over the years.
• Tobe’s conscience is guilty because of his role in covering up the truth.

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

• When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. (paragraph 4)
• So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. (paragraph 15)
• Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people. (paragraph 44)
• (By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily’s allies to help circumvent the cousins.) (paragraph 46)

In line 27 of the poem, the phrase “Good fences make good neighbors” is included to —

• emphasize a playful conversation
• suggest that the old ways are still the best ways
• show that the neighbor relies on tradition to live his life
• describe the wisdom by which the speaker wants to live his life

Read line 33 of the poem. What I was walling in or walling out, The poet uses alliteration, the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words, in this line to —

• illustrate the speaker’s growing impatience with his closest neighbor
• emphasize the speaker’s questioning of why people must build barriers
• suggest that if it were not for traditional beliefs, there would be no wall
• demonstrate the speaker’s belief that most walls are truly unnecessary

What is most likely the author’s purpose for writing the graphic novel?

• To justify the choices his parents and other Japanese Americans made during World War II
• To portray the challenges and dilemmas faced by Japanese Americans during World War II
• To expose the American government’s plan to trick Japanese Americans into admitting loyalty to Japan
• To criticize Japanese Americans who swore loyalty to the United States even after being imprisoned