This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 42 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The lover, who has often identified himself as a student, mourns the loss of his beloved, Leonora. In history we can conclude that: A) Leonora and the student are happy. B) Leonora dies. C) The student is very intelligent. D) The student is loved. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leonora dies. 2. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven, " how does the speaker describe the bird by the end of the poem? A) Like a companion. B) Like a demon. C) Like a stately creature. D) Like a messenger from heaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like a demon. 3. How does the Raven respond to the narrator's questions about the possibility of seeing Lenore in the afterlife? A) It provides a hopeful answer. B) It offers a comforting response. C) It remains silent. D) It repeats 'Nevermore.'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It repeats 'Nevermore.'. 4. What was "drawn" in the speaker's childhood? A) A mystery. B) A picture of Edgar Allan Poe's mother. C) A bucket of water. D) An ace of spades. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A mystery. 5. Was he adopted? A) No, because adopting was too expensive. B) Yes. C) No he was alone all his life. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, because adopting was too expensive. 6. At first encounter, the speaker's reaction to the Raven is- A) Revulsion. B) Fear. C) Anger. D) Amusement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amusement. 7. Which of the following is not the theme of the poem? A) Chase your dreams. B) Set high goals. C) Chasing dreams is futile. D) Never give up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chasing dreams is futile. 8. How did the narrator feel about this animal? A) He started loving it very much. B) He was indifferent. C) He started hating it. D) He forgot about it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He started hating it. 9. This is the way he disposed of the body: A) He threw it into the garden well. B) He put it in a box to be transported. C) He walled him up in the basement. D) He fragmented the corpse and threw the pieces into the fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He walled him up in the basement. 10. The following sentence contains what type of figurative language? He was as hungry as a lion. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 11. What is Poe's most famous piece? A) The Gold-Bug. B) Eleonora. C) The Raven. D) The Tell-Tale Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Raven. 12. When the author wrote the story he was probably feeling A) Sincere. B) Scornful. C) Down-hearted. D) Humorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humorous. 13. Who were Edgar Allan Poe's parents? A) Elizabeth Arnold and David. B) John Allan and Maria Clemm. C) William and Mary. D) Thomas and Sarah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth Arnold and David. 14. What is he famous for? A) Horror and mystery. B) Love and history. C) Love at first sight. D) Detective Conan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horror and mystery. 15. Kinsmen means A) A place of burial; tomb. B) Any of the highest order of angels. C) Family members. D) Disunite; separate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Family members. 16. To make someone feel annoyed or frustrated A) Surcease. B) Vex. C) Importunate. D) Acute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vex. 17. Why Edgar Allan Poe associated so strongly with the city of Baltimore, Maryland? A) It's where he met his wife Virginia. B) It's where he died. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 18. "Sending letters we shall converse" A) ED SHEERAN. B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ED SHEERAN. 19. What is the name of the "rare and radiant maiden" who the author pines for? A) Lenora. B) Fly. C) Lydia. D) Lorelei. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lenora. 20. What did the narrator like most when he was a child? A) Toys. B) Sweets. C) Animals. D) Zoos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Animals. ← 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