Q 01/05

In A Rose for Emily, which poison does Emily Grierson demand from the druggist without saying what it is for?

A) Strychnine

B) Arsenic

C) Cyanide

D) Laudanum

Answer · why

B) Arsenic

Arsenic arrives at her house in a box the druggist has labelled as rat poison, under a skull and crossbones. The town assumes she means to kill hersel...

Q 02/05

Which Northern foreman courts Emily Grierson in A Rose for Emily and is last seen entering her house at dusk?

A) Abner Snopes

B) Quentin Compson

C) Homer Barron

D) Joe Christmas

Answer · why

C) Homer Barron

Homer Barron was soon driving out with Emily every Sunday afternoon, and the town expected a wedding. When he disappeared, people assumed he had deser...

Q 03/05

In A Rose for Emily, what do the townspeople notice on the second pillow beside the body?

A) A single dried rose

B) An unsigned love letter

C) A faded wedding veil

D) A strand of gray hair

Answer · why

D) A strand of gray hair

A strand of gray hair, long and iron-colored like Emily's own, lies in the hollow of a head on that pillow. It tells the town she had been lying besid...

Q 04/05

William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily opens with which event, which the whole town attends partly out of curiosity?

A) Her wedding day

B) Her funeral

C) Her eviction

D) Her murder trial

Answer · why

B) Her funeral

Her funeral gives the townspeople a chance to see inside a house that no outsider had entered for ten years. The men, the narrator says, come out of a...

Q 05/05

In A Rose for Emily, what does Emily tell callers for three days after her father's death?

A) That he was murdered

B) That she is now free

C) That he is not dead

D) That he left her rich

Answer · why

C) That he is not dead

That he is not dead is all she will say, meeting visitors at the door dressed as usual, with no sign of grief. She gives way only as the law is about ...