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- 1. Multiple Choice
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
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which line below best tells the reader that the Grierson name was of a southern aristocratic status?
"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."
But there were still others, older people, who siad that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Define macabre
a quiet hissing noise
disturbing or horrifying image depicting death or dead bodies
to tell or give information
a group of people with common interests
- 4. Multiple Choice
The theme of Willam Faulkner's short story, A Rose for Emily, is best summed up by which of the following?
One should refuse to give up old fashion values
Never take no as an answer from your lover
Family always has your best intentions
If one refuses to adapt and embrace the future, he/she will fade away with the past
- 5. Multiple Choice
Define archaic
old or outdated
a type of arrow
a person from the North
cousins who visit from Alabama
- 6. Multiple Choice
Miss Emily refused to be jilted by her lover. What is the best meaning of the word jilted?
abandoned by a lover
to have never found love
someone who abandons his/her lover
someone who refuses the love of someone else
- 7. Multiple Choice
The image of the gray hair on the pillow is significant because -
It proves that Miss Emily was getting old.
It reveals the gruesome act Emily has committed.
It shows that Emily is losing her hair due to the stress in her life.
It draws the reader closer to the mystery of Miss Emily’s servant.
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the occasion taking place in the beginning of the story?
a wedding
a funeral
a dinner party
a dance
- 9. Multiple Choice
Emily's father could best be described as which of the following?
loving and caring
controlling, selfish
aloof and disengaged from Emily
lonely and isolated
- 10. Multiple Choice
Why did the townspeople disapprove of Miss Emily's relationship with Homer?
He was too good looking for her.
He was a Yankee.
He was a gay.
He was a bachelor.
- 11. Multiple Choice
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
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why did the townspeople think that Emily and Homer had gotten 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.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Where does the story take place?
Boston, Massachusettes, 1850
Washington D.C., present day
Atlanta, Georgia, 1775
Jefferson, Mississippi, early 1900s
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is the historical era of the story?
Reconstruction (after the Civil War)
Colonial Period
Post World War II
The Roaring Twenties
- 15. Multiple Choice
The story focuses on the life of Emily after she has already died. What is the term for this story structure?
Allusion
Metaphor
Flashback
Allegory
- 16. Multiple Choice
Why did the Board of Aldermen send a deputation to Miss Emily's house?
to ask her what the odd smell was
to vanquish her father
to arrest her
to collect taxes
- 17. Multiple Choice
What is the definition of the word vanquish?
to banish, expel, or send away
to disappear
to shrink
to give up
- 18. Multiple Choice
Why did Faulkner title the story A Rose for Emily when she had never received a rose?
Faulkner claimed, "It was a salute to a tragic character."
Faulkner claimed, "It captured the essence of the story."
Faulkner claimed the titled implied, What Homer should have given to Emily."
Faulkner claimed, "It just sounded right!"
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is the definition of the word encroached?
defended
intruded
surrounded
endured
- 20. Multiple Choice
What do the town members finally do about "the smell"?
They cleaned her house.
Judge Stevens made her move out.
The sprinkled lime around yard.
Tobe, her servant, stopped killing rats in the yard.
- 21. Multiple Choice
What is the name of Miss Emily's love interest?
Homer Simpson
Homer Illiad
Homer Barron
Homer Odyssey
- 22. Multiple Choice
What does Miss Emily purchase from the druggist?
Ajax
Borax
Bleach
Arsenic
- 23. Multiple Choice
Why is the transaction between Miss Emily and the druggist ambiguous?
the audience does not know what Emily is using the poison for
the audience feels that Emily is demanding
the audience knows that the druggist is scared of her
the audience does not know what he sold her
- 24. Multiple Choice
What did the townspeople think Miss Emily was going to do with the poison?
They thought she would kill rats.
They thought she would kill herself.
They thought she would kill her servant, Tobe.
They thought she would kill her cousins.
- 25. Multiple Choice
What are the characteristics of Southern Gothic Literature?
Resistant to change; a struggle between Old and New South, Antebellum setting or characters, symbols of decay, deeply flawed characters often isolated, macabre, grotesque, gloomy, freakish, romanticism
A hero, setting is usually in a castle, an antihero, romanticism, a distressed female, religious symbols
Set in the future, usually a government agent or operative is the hero, there is a plot to destroy the world, a romantic love interest is involved
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