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"Breakfast"
"A Rose for Emily"
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
Merwin's poems
Author Background
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Who wrote the story?
John Steinbeck
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When the aldermen tell her she must pay taxes, how does Miss Emily respond?
With calm arrogance. She has no intention of paying the taxes.
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Mr. Shiftlet is most concerned with convincing Mrs. Crater that he is what?
Moral.
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What situation is evoked by the images of “The Asians Dying”?
A landscape after a battle.
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A Southern writer who used "regional settings and situations to represent universal themes."
William Faulkner
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What is the narrator clearly impressed by?
The woman's grace and efficiency.
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Why did Mr. Grierson keep men away from his daughter?
He was a bully.
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From the time he arrives at the Craters’ farm, Mr. Shiftlet’s greatest desire is for what?
The car.
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To what does the poet compare the dead?
Bruises.
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Writer who wrote about the "invisible man," a character that represented marginalized African Americans.
Ralph Ellison
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How can the way the family treats the narrator be best described?
The family is accepting.
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What do the townspeople think a woman's deepest desire is?
To get married.
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Why does Mr. Shiftlet abandon Lucynell?
He no longer needs her.
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What simile is at the center of “Separation”?
Absence is like a thread.
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Writer for the New Yorker and a popular essayist.
E. B. White
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How do the men seem to feel about working in the cotton fields?
They are pleased that they have work.
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Miss Emily gets what she wants from the druggist by doing what?
Intimidating him.
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Who realizes that Mr. Shiftlet is corrupt?
The hitchhiker.
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In “When You Go Away,” what is the poet describing?
How he feels when his lover leaves him.
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A Southern Gothic writer who sought to shock readers through "distortions of modern life." (and she raised peacocks!)
Flannery O'Connor
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Describe the mood of the breakfast memory.
Calm and peaceful.
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The ending of the story is foreshadowed by what? (three things)
Insanity in Miss Emily’s family, Miss Emily’s inability to believe her father is dead, and the mysterious smell that comes from the house.
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Mr. Shiftlet’s behavior toward the hitchhiker suggests that Shiftlet wants to do what?
Save him.
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At the end of “When You Go Away,” what does the narrator compare his words to?
A sleeve folded over a lost limb.
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This author graduated from Princeton University.
W. S. Merwin