This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. At the age of 6 he went to boarding school in ..... A) England. B) Scotland. C) Bernille. D) Jerusalem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) England. 2. Willingness to take bold risks A) Audacity. B) Sagacity. C) Vehemently. D) Perish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audacity. 3. From where does the lyrical subject observe Raven? A) From the kitchen chair. B) From the bed. C) From the armchair. D) With floor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From the armchair. 4. Which of these themes appears prominently in a number of Poe's stories? A) The triumph of "rugged individualism". B) The complexity of family life. C) Unrequited love. D) The human mind's tendency toward self-destruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The human mind's tendency toward self-destruction. 5. What is the NOUN (person place or thing) in this sentence? The crazy man killed his wife. A) Crazy. B) Killed. C) Man. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man. 6. The writer of a poem is called ..... A) Poet. B) Illustrator. C) Author. D) Smart person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 7. Where did Edgar Allan Poe move to start a new life with his bride? A) Boston. B) Baltimore. C) Richmond. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New York. 8. What time of year is it in the poem 'The Raven'? A) Spring. B) Summer. C) Fall. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Winter. 9. Did his mother die before he was adopted? A) Yes, she did. B) No, she didn't. C) Not known. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes, she did. 10. In which city was the first official accusation of Satanism made? A) Roma. B) London. C) Turin. D) Toulouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Toulouse. 11. How does the structure of the poem contribute to its tone? A) It creates a sense of suspense and mystery. B) It emphasizes the speaker's emotions and inner thoughts. C) It highlights the beauty of nature and the changing seasons. D) It showcases the diversity of literary techniques and styles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It creates a sense of suspense and mystery. 12. What was the "completely unexpected effect" of moving the candelabra? A) He woke up his servant. B) He was able to read the book more clearly. C) It illuminated a picture that had gone unnoticed. D) The chandelier went out. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It illuminated a picture that had gone unnoticed. 13. What text structure was used to write this article? A) Chronological order. B) Description. C) Cause & effect. D) Compare & contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chronological order. 14. Poe turns readers into active participants with his use of the ..... , and the reader must decide is the narrator might be lying about the events. A) Horrific diction. B) Unreliable narrator. C) Black irony. D) Ambiguous metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unreliable narrator. 15. Choose the answer. Which line from "The Raven" has internal rhyme? A) Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer. B) And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. C) And so faintly you came tapping,. D) Only this and nothing more. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer. 16. When the narrator states "my hopes have flown before", what tone is implied? A) Dark. B) Desperate. C) Hopeful. D) Hopeless. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hopeless. 17. The painter's wife was deeply in love with her husband, but she hated art, because ..... A) The admirers of his paintings were many. B) She was her husband's model. C) Her husband was totally obsessed with him. D) They criticized her husband's art a lot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her husband was totally obsessed with him. 18. How does the narrator describe his emotional state in stanza 1? A) Restless and anxious. B) Sad and tired. C) Angry and frightened. D) Joyful and happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sad and tired. 19. The quotation marks in the following sentence are used correctly to show the title of the work:One of my favorite short stories by Edgar Allan Poe is called "The Black Cat" . A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. What type of text is the Pit and the Pendulum? A) Fable. B) Tale. C) Mito. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tale. ← 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