First Read: A Rose for Emily

Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 5?

. "Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman's life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die."

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage (paragraph 26)? So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.

. The men spread lime around Emily's house in order to get rid of the odor of decay.

This text is told in the_____ tense, from a_______ point of view.

. past; first-person

Which sentences from the text best support the correct answer to Question 7?

A. "When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily."

The following passage (paragraphs 13-15) mainly shows that . "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson.""But, Miss Emily—""See Colonel Sartoris." (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out."

B. Emily has become a recluse and does not understand that the town has changed.

According to the narrator, which of the following inferences about Emily's father is best supported by the text?

He prevented Emily from marrying or having suitors because he was too proud.

Which of the following statements most closely summarizes the townspeople's changing view of Emily throughout the story?

People thought Emily was haughty and proud, but they pitied her as she became older and less fortunate.

3

The narrator recounts Emily's courtship with Homer Barron.

2

The narrator recounts the story of townspeople complaining about a smell coming from Emily's house.

1

The townspeople attend Emily's funeral.

4

The townspeople discover the body of Homer Barron in Emily's house.

Based on the passage (paragraph 51) which of the following responses best explains why the townspeople sent their daughters for lessons with Emily? From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting. She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris' contemporaries were sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate. Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.

The townspeople send the girls as a form of charity to help support Emily.

Recent important events that are the latest in a series of related events

developments

Reducing in size or importance

diminishing

Trespassed upon the property, domain, or rights of another

encroached

Incapable of being injured or impaired

impervious

Strong, healthy, full of energy

vigorous