At first Elisa is irritated by the tinker and refuses to give him any business, but she warms up to him and allows him into her garden. Why?

Several of this writer’s novels like The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, were turned into movies.

What do some of the men in the community do when Emily’s house begins to smell?

Born to Swedish Immigrant parents in Illinois, this poet eventually moved to Chicago where he became a writer for the Daily News.

What does Emily obtain from the druggist?

Why didn’t Emily Grierson pay taxes in Jefferson?

Known as “the Bard of Harlem,” this writer was once investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy because of his early connections to the American Communist Party.

For five of the following spot quotes, identify the author and work and discuss (1-2 complete sentences) the significance of this passage. I will only grade the first five answered.  Please number each answer to match the corresponding quote.(4 pts. each) 1. . . . I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so          proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here         is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;     Nature’s first green is gold,         Her hardest hue to hold.         Her early leaf’s a flower;         But only so an hour.   3. O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!   You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique. (And her only thirty-one.) I can’t help it, she said, pulling a long face, It’s them pills I took, to bring it off, she said. (She’s had five already, and nearly died of young George.) The chemist said it would be all right, but I’ve never been the same.   Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.    I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.    I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records—Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races.    So will my page be colored that I write?    6.      Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.   7. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust. Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.   8. “Well, I can only tell you what it feels like. It’s when you’re picking off the buds you don’t want. Everything goes right down into your fingertips. You watch your fingers work. They do it themselves. You can feel how it is. They pick and pick the buds. They never make a mistake. They’re with the plant. Do you see? Your fingers and the plant. You can feel that, right up your arm. They know. They never make a mistake. You can feel it. When you’re like that you can’t do anything wrong. Do you see that? Can you understand that?”

What happens when the new mayor of Jefferson tries to collect taxes from Emily Grierson?

What does Elisa see on the road to Salinas that upsets her?