This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 41 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 41 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Not intimidated or discouraged by difficult circumstances A) Insoluble. B) Cunning. C) Importunate. D) Undaunted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Undaunted. 2. Hypocritical A) A cobweb. B) Behaving like one has a higher standard but it's not really the case. C) Freedom from punishment. D) An intense investigation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behaving like one has a higher standard but it's not really the case. 3. What is the physical environment of the work? A) Una oficina. B) A psychiatric office. C) A haunted house. D) A school. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A psychiatric office. 4. Choose the answer. Read the passage:While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, Identify the effect of the alliteration in this passage. A) The word tapping is a sound word. B) The words napping and tapping rhyme. C) The words nodded, nearly napping are right next to each other and are stressed. D) The words nodded, nearly napping suggest a person's head drifting off to sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The words nodded, nearly napping suggest a person's head drifting off to sleep. 5. What is the definition of imagery? A) A story that reveals a hidden meaning. B) The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words. C) Lines ending in words that rhyme. D) Language and description that appeals to the five senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Language and description that appeals to the five senses. 6. What is the meaning of the word 'obstinate'? A) A person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior. B) Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so. C) The quality of a color determined by its dominant wavelength. D) The visual percept of a region. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so. 7. What is his most famous book? A) The Raven. B) The black cat. C) The Fall of the House of Usher. D) Manuscript found in a bottle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The black cat. 8. What colour was the cat? A) Black and white. B) All black. C) All white. D) Yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All black. 9. What is the definition of the word TUMULTUOUS? A) Stop oneself from doing something. B) Make someone feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters. C) Making a loud, confused noise. D) The state of being private and away from other people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making a loud, confused noise. 10. Popular belief considers all black cats to be: A) Witches' pets. B) Witches in disguise. C) Dangerous pets. D) Of good luck. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Witches in disguise. 11. How does the narrator find out about the story of the painter and the portrait? A) His assistant told it to him. B) He read it from a book that contained criticism and analysis of the paintings. C) He read it on the back of the four. D) For a dream he had. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He read it from a book that contained criticism and analysis of the paintings. 12. What was in the boat that Jupiter was carrying? A) A scythe and three shovels. B) Three shovels and a lantern. C) Three shovels and a trunk. D) A scythe and an axe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A scythe and three shovels. 13. As old as ..... A) The hills. B) The president. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The hills. 14. Which word means "very smart, having good judgement? A) Infamy. B) Sagacious. C) Conspicuous. D) Pertinacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sagacious. 15. Which phrase best sums up Poe's guiding principle for writing fiction? A) Shock and Awe. B) Unity of Effect. C) The Iceberg Principle. D) Deep Hidden Meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unity of Effect. 16. What illness did Edgar Allan Poe's wife Virginia die from? A) Tuberculosis. B) Cancer. C) Heart Disease. D) Pneumonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tuberculosis. 17. In what way did the speaker love? A) Passionately. B) Surrounded by all his friends. C) Alone. D) He didn't love anything. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alone. 18. What is the primary cause of Roderick Usher's anxiety? A) Financial troubles. B) The impending death of Madeline. C) The decay of the mansion. D) A mysterious illness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The impending death of Madeline. 19. Which word means "freedom from punishment or consequences?" A) Infamy. B) Atrocity. C) Pertinacity. D) Impunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impunity. 20. What is the modern tradition of trick-or-treating based on? A) Leaving food outside to scare away ghosts. B) Eating treats left outside by others. C) Collecting candy from neighbors. D) Playing pranks on Halloween night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eating treats left outside by others. ← 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