This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many conjugated verbs are there in this fragment: "Once again I sank into excess and very soon drowned the memories of what happened in wine" ? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 2. Poe's nickname as an editor A) The Raven. B) The Tomahawk. C) Grip. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tomahawk. 3. "She is wasting away to skin and bones ..... she can hardly move ..... she has ..... " A) Bizarre. B) Seizures. C) Scythe. D) Sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seizures. 4. Where did you first find Ligeia? A) In a modern city in England. B) In a ruined city on the Rhine. C) In an abbey with great towers. D) En Inglaterra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a ruined city on the Rhine. 5. What did Legrand discover when they were returning home? A) That the legend was a lie. B) That he was going crazy. C) That they had dug in the wrong place. D) That Jupiter wanted to deceive them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That they had dug in the wrong place. 6. In "The Raven, " what was the narrator doing in the first two stanzas? A) Trying and failing to sleep. B) Thinking about Lenore. C) Reading books. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reading books. 7. Being of striking appropriateness; likely A) Apt. B) Entreat. C) Ominous. D) Ungainly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apt. 8. What is a heretic? A) Who loves food and worships an idol. B) Who professes a religion, practices its precepts and lives and acts in accordance with it. C) Person who denies any of the dogmas established in a religion. D) That doubts or distrusts the truth, effectiveness or possibilities of something, especially commonly accepted beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person who denies any of the dogmas established in a religion. 9. Punishment inflicted as vengeance for a wrong/criminal act A) Concealment. B) Retribution. C) Seraph. D) Harken. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Retribution. 10. How old was Poe when his biological (birth) parents died? A) 3-years-old. B) 10-years-old. C) 24-years-old. D) 40-years-old. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3-years-old. 11. According to accounts Usher was: A) A balcony. B) A well. C) A man. D) The alley of a house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A man. 12. Sovereignty, control. A) Dominion. B) Ascertain. C) Pendulum. D) Tumultuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dominion. 13. Subsequent A) Coming after or later. B) Underwater. C) Your last question. D) The first question on a test. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coming after or later. 14. Imagine Jackson, Mia, and Hannah are reading a poem in their literature class. They come across the word 'fiend' in the seventh stanza. Hannah thinks it means 'friend', but Mia disagrees. What does the word 'fiend' actually mean? A) Friend. B) Cruel or wicked person. C) Professor. D) Doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cruel or wicked person. 15. The animal sanctuary was a ..... for rescued animals in need of care and attention. A) Imaginative. B) Haven. C) Mourn. D) Bruise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haven. 16. What did the protagonist feel when he went down the well? A) Terror and fear in your soul. B) I was oppressed and suffocated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I was oppressed and suffocated. 17. What is the best meaning of the word "spring" in line 4? A) A giant airplane. B) A source. C) A metal thing that causes things to spring. D) A Diet Coke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A source. 18. As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor, " I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- A) Symbolism. B) Hyperbole. C) Anaphora. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 19. What structure is poetry written in? A) Sentences & paragraphs. B) Sentences & stanzas. C) Lines and paragraphs. D) Lines and stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines and stanzas. 20. What is extraordinary about Poe's work to John Astin? A) The rhythyms. B) The internal rhymes. C) The choice of language. D) All of it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of it. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEdgar Allan Poe Quiz 1Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 2Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 3Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 4Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 5Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 6Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 7Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 8Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books