Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 35 (20 MCQs)

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1. Gory

Correct Answer: D) Marked by bloodshed, slaughter, or violence.

2. Which word means "a ghost or unreal figure?"

Correct Answer: A) Apparition.

3. What is the name of Roderick Usher's twin sister?

Correct Answer: A) Madeline.

4. A narrator whose credibility is compromised; who is untrustworthy

Correct Answer: A) Unreliable narrator.

5. What does a raven typically symbolize?

Correct Answer: C) Bad luck or bad omen.

6. What was the title of Poe's most famous poem?

Correct Answer: B) The Raven.

7. What do we learn about the narrator when he asks the police officers to sit and rest in the same room where he hid the body?

Correct Answer: B) He is confident.

8. Who did Poe marry in secret?

Correct Answer: D) Virginia Clemm.

9. How did the old man survive?

Correct Answer: D) He held on to a barrel.

10. What two collges did Poe attend?

Correct Answer: A) University of Virginia & West Point.

11. As bussy as a .....

Correct Answer: A) Bee.

12. Some of Poe's most famous works:

Correct Answer: A) The crow; Police Stories; Silence.

13. His poem the raven was sold for

Correct Answer: B) $ 9.

14. Why did the protagonist kill the "old man" ?

Correct Answer: D) Because he disliked his "vulture eye.".

15. What is his most famous poem?

Correct Answer: B) The Raven.

16. To what genre and narrative species respectively does "The Black Cat" belong?

Correct Answer: B) Epic and story.

17. What is the meaning of the word 'audacious'?

Correct Answer: D) Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.

18. What did Edgar Allan Poe's Godfather want him to learn about?

Correct Answer: B) Business.

19. What is the Red Death?

Correct Answer: A) A contagious disease.

20. What happened to Lenore?

Correct Answer: C) She died.