Emily Dickinson — Questions and answers

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What were the special manuscript books Emily Dickinson bound her poems into called?

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  1. Novels
  2. Fascicles ✓
  3. Journals
  4. Anthologies

Answer: Fascicles

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What was Emily Dickinson's father's job?

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  1. A teacher
  2. A farmer
  3. A lawyer ✓
  4. A doctor

Answer: A lawyer

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What did Emily do at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary that showed she was independent?

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  1. She became a pious educator.
  2. She followed all the strict rules.
  3. She refused to declare herself 'found for Christ'. ✓
  4. She joined many religious revivals.

Answer: She refused to declare herself 'found for Christ'.

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Why did Emily Dickinson choose to stay mostly inside her home in the late 1850s?

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  1. She was afraid of her neighbors.
  2. She wanted to preserve space for her poetic work. ✓
  3. She was always ill and couldn't go out.
  4. She didn't like the weather in Amherst.

Answer: She wanted to preserve space for her poetic work.

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What did Emily Dickinson experiment with in her poems that was different from other poets of her time?

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  1. Long adventure stories
  2. Meter, slant rhyme, and cryptic imagery ✓
  3. Happy, sentimental love songs
  4. Simple, easy-to-understand words

Answer: Meter, slant rhyme, and cryptic imagery

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Who did Emily Dickinson write to in 1862, asking for advice on her poems?

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  1. Her sister Lavinia
  2. Thomas Wentworth Higginson ✓
  3. Her father Edward Dickinson
  4. Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

Answer: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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How did Emily Dickinson make her fascicles (small booklets of poems)?

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  1. She bought them from a local store.
  2. She had a printer make them for her.
  3. She copied poems onto folded paper and stitched them with string. ✓
  4. She glued them into a large, fancy book.

Answer: She copied poems onto folded paper and stitched them with string.

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What happened after Emily Dickinson's sister, Lavinia, found her poems?

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  1. Lavinia burned all the poems as Emily wished.
  2. Lavinia immediately decided to try and get them published. ✓
  3. Lavinia put them back in the chest and forgot about them.
  4. Lavinia wrote her own poems and added them to Emily's collection.

Answer: Lavinia immediately decided to try and get them published.

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Who helped Lavinia Dickinson prepare Emily's poems for publication?

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  1. Only Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
  2. Only Mabel Loomis Todd.
  3. Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. ✓
  4. No one, Lavinia did it all herself.

Answer: Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

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How is Emily Dickinson's work seen by people today?

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  1. It is still considered too eccentric to be important.
  2. It is celebrated as a foundational part of modern poetry. ✓
  3. It has been forgotten and no longer influences writers.
  4. People only read the edited versions of her poems.

Answer: It is celebrated as a foundational part of modern poetry.

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