1. A Rose for Emily

2. 1. What was Miss Emily's lover's name?
Homer Banes
Homer Barnes
Homer Barton
Homer Barron

3. 2. What color is Miss Emily's hair at the end of her life?
light gray
White
Silver
iron gray

4. 3. What color were the walls in the upstairs room where Homer's body was found?
White
Rose
Yellow
Cream

5. 4. What hints do we get that Emily lives in the past?
Her chain watch is invisible though still ticking
Her father peers out from his portrait on a tarnished easel
The parlor smells of dust and disuse
She instructs the aldermen to talk to Col. Sartoris
All of the above

6. 5. Justice Stevens refuses to intervene in the matter of     the smell because ...
He doesn't want to implicate Miss E.
Telling her would violate rules of etiquette and chivalry
He thinks there may be more serious problems afoot
It is airborne pollution from a nearby textile plant
All of the above

7. 6. The strand of hair on the pillow indicates that
Emily had turned prematurely gray
Homer had turned prematurely gray
Emily had been sleeping with Homer's corpse for years
Emily hadn't been keeping up with the laundry
All of the above

8. 7. Faulkner uses suspended revelation when
Emily haughtily dismisses the tax-collecting delegation
Emily forgets Col. Sartoris has been dead for 10 years
We're given the image Emily's father silhouetted in the doorway
We're told about the hair on the pillow only at the end
All of the above

9. 8. The narrator believes that Miss Emily's father did all he could to
make Miss Emily happy.
find a suitable husband for Miss Emily.
encourage Miss Emily to become more humble and less proud.
ensure that Miss Emily would never marry

10. 9. When the Board of Aldermen tried to get Miss Emily to pay her taxes, her reply was one of
rage.
wild despair.
calm pride.
complete bewilderment.

11. 10. In this story, the narrator's point of view is most representative of the views and opinions held by
Miss Emily
Miss Emily's father
Miss Emily’s lover
the people in the community

12. Why would Faulkner have used a non-linear timeline?
The contorted plot line is perfect for a mystery (which this story is, to some degree): like all mysteries, it withholds information till the very end. The nonlinear plot also parallels Emily's confused state of mind: she can't distinguish past from present--form following content.

13. Find these words in the story!
1. remit – pardon
2. mote – speck
3. gilt – gold-edged
4. pallid – pale
5. hue – color/shade
6. temerity – courage

14. Vocabulary 2 7. teeming – swarming 8. diffident – shy
9. deprecation – derogatory (belittle)
10. tableau – scene
11. cabal – secret intrigue
12. impervious – not able to pass through

15. Vocabulary 3 13. acrid – bitter
14. thwart – to keep from happening; to stand in the way
15. august – magnificent; inspiring awe
16. cuckold – husband of an adulterous wife

16. 1. What metaphor is used to describe Miss Emily in the first paragraph?
2. How is the house personified in the second paragraph?

17. “A Rose for Emily” evokes the terms Southern gothic and grotesque, two types of literature in which the general tone is one of gloom, terror, and understated violence.

18. You know this?
necrophilia—an erotic or sexual attraction to corpses

19. Mood and Tone
The mood of Rose for Emily is nostalgic, then suspenseful, and then alarming. The tone of the story, as being told by the townsfolk, is gothic and also inviting to suspense.

20. Why is she called a "fallen monument" in the first paragraph?
Women of the Old South and of a "good family" were often put on pedestals as paragons of virtue and respectability and given special treatment as "ladies."