Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 23 (20 MCQs)

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1. Read lines 4 and 5 from "Eldorado." The sensory language in these lines highlights the character's-

Correct Answer: D) Optimism.

2. "Perfumed from an unseen censer swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor."

Correct Answer: D) The Raven.

3. What did Edgar Allan Poe set on fire to stay warm?

Correct Answer: C) His furniture.

4. What was the shape of the frame of the portrait?

Correct Answer: D) Oval.

5. What was the name of Edgar Allan Poe's first book of poetry?

Correct Answer: A) Tamerlane and Other Poems.

6. Which word means "a small amount?"

Correct Answer: B) Paltry.

7. "I scarcely have had time for cares"

Correct Answer: B) EDGAR ALLAN POE.

8. Nostalgia

Correct Answer: B) A longing for the past.

9. What was the name of the first cat?

Correct Answer: C) Pluto.

10. The first brutal act that the man committed against the cat was:

Correct Answer: C) Take out an eye.

11. What is the name of the cat in this short story?

Correct Answer: B) Pluton.

12. What was one of Poe's best works?

Correct Answer: B) The Tell Tale Heart.

13. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

Correct Answer: C) AABCCB.

14. The act of hiding one's thoughts or feelings

Correct Answer: C) Dissimilation.

15. " ..... at its end was a half-circle of steel-like a giant ..... blade ..... "

Correct Answer: B) Razor.

16. What is the meaning of the word 'belligerent'?

Correct Answer: B) Hostile and aggressive.

17. What response does the raven initially cause the narrator to have? (stanza 8)

Correct Answer: D) He shouts.

18. Deep in earth my love is lying / And I must weep alone

Correct Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe.

19. Words that sound alike at the end.

Correct Answer: C) Rhyme.

20. In which narrative is there a TYPE of narrator different from the other three?

Correct Answer: B) The Masque of the Red Death.