This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where did he work? A) In magazines and newspapers. B) Film studios. C) Schools and universities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In magazines and newspapers. 2. What appeared on the only wall that was not burned in the fire? A) The silhouette of a cat. B) A rose. C) A candle. D) A raven. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The silhouette of a cat. 3. No amount of money or power can help you escape from death. A) Conflict. B) Irony. C) Foreshadowing. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 4. How does the story end for Mr. Valdemar? A) He returns to a normal life. B) He remains in a state of suspended animation indefinitely. C) He dies shortly after speaking. D) He becomes a famous medical case. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He dies shortly after speaking. 5. The author organizes this selection by ..... A) Listing Poe's accomplishments as a writer. B) Describing how Poe's gambling debt affected his adulthood. C) Comparing Poe's being orphaned to how he died mysteriously. D) Explaining how Poe became a famous writer even facing hardships. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Explaining how Poe became a famous writer even facing hardships. 6. What was the name of another poem that Poe wrote about Virginia's death? A) Anabel Lee. B) MS Found in a Bottle. C) The Fall of the House of Usher. D) The Pit and the Pendulum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anabel Lee. 7. Innate A) Not caring about another person. B) Taking care to avoid others. C) Esisting from birth, or born with. D) A type of personality you are showing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Esisting from birth, or born with. 8. What does the word 'magnanimous' mean? A) A person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior. B) The visual percept of a region. C) The quality of a color determined by its dominant wavelength. D) Generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person. 9. Everybody who was in the castle dies. The surviving citizens outside resume their normal lives. A) Characterization. B) Foreshadowing. C) Resolution. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolution. 10. What is the meaning of the word 'intrepid'? A) A person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior. B) The visual percept of a region. C) Fearless; adventurous (often used for rhetorical or humorous effect). D) The quality of a color determined by its dominant wavelength. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fearless; adventurous (often used for rhetorical or humorous effect). 11. What does the narrator find when they open the door? A) Sunshine. B) Darkness. C) A ghost. D) A treasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darkness. 12. Which detail from the poem best indicates how the narrator feels about the Raven when he first appears? A) Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly" (49). B) "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling" (43). C) "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door" (101)!. D) " Leave my loneliness unbroken" (100)!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling" (43). 13. What did the narrator ask Pedro to do? A) Close the curtains. B) Open the windows. C) Turn off the lights. D) Light the candles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Light the candles. 14. What did the painter do when he finished the portrait? A) He celebrated with his wife. B) He showed it to his friends. C) He sold it to a museum. D) He realized his wife was dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He realized his wife was dead. 15. What was the disease that Virginia contracted? A) Covid 19. B) Eczema. C) Tuberculosis. D) Polio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tuberculosis. 16. As blind as a ..... A) Carrot. B) Bat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bat. 17. Which work of Edgar Allan Poe stunned the actor, John Astin? A) The Purloined Letter. B) The Tell-Tale Heart. C) The Casket of Amontillado. D) The Pit and the Pendulum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Purloined Letter. 18. State the following statement about The Oblong Box as true or false:At first, the protagonist believes that Wyatt's wife is very inferior to him. A) TRUE. B) Falso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 19. Where was he born? A) In Germany. B) In the USA. C) In the Uk. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the USA. 20. What genre did Poe invent with his stories featuring C. Auguste Dupin? A) Horror. B) Science fiction. C) Detective. D) Satire. 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