This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 51 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 51 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the speaker want to know? A) He wants to know who the raven is. B) He wants to know if the raven will go away. C) He wants to know if he will see Lenore again. D) He wants to know why he is alive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wants to know if he will see Lenore again. 2. What is the phrase that Dupin writes in the letter to the minister? A) It is much easier to get up than to get down. B) Death is taken face-to-face with courage. C) Such a sinister plan, if not worthy of Atreus, is worthy of Thyestes. D) Danger doesn't scare me at all, but the ultimate consequence does:terror. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Such a sinister plan, if not worthy of Atreus, is worthy of Thyestes. 3. Where was Edgar Allan Poe from? A) United States. B) France. C) Great Britain. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) United States. 4. Roderick Usher looks exactly the same as he did before. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Grim and desolate are synonyms of bleak A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. From the text it can be inferred that Sully is: A) The servant. B) Any painter. C) The owner of the castle. D) The portrait painter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any painter. 7. Read the line from the poem and choose the definition of the CAPITALIZED word: "Leave no black PLUME as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken" (99)! A) Angel. B) Feather. C) Drink. D) Dreary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feather. 8. From the expression "alternately between contemplating these paintings and reading a small volume that he had found on his pillow" (paragraph 1) it is understood that the narrator: A) The first half of the time was spent reading and the second looking at the paintings. B) He was only dedicated to reading or just looking at the paintings. C) Performed both activities simultaneously. D) I alternated reading with pictorial observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I alternated reading with pictorial observation. 9. Revel A) Slow to understand. B) Pale because of sickness or health. C) Extraordinary in size. D) To take great pleasure in something. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To take great pleasure in something. 10. Persistent, to the point of annoyance A) Importunate. B) Contemplation. C) Dilapidation. D) Cunning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Importunate. 11. Annabel Lee:This poem is dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe's wife who died at a young age from ..... A) Tuberculosis. B) Cancer. C) A stoke. D) The Plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tuberculosis. 12. What illness did the protagonist have? A) Cancer. B) Alcoholism. C) Diabetes. D) Schizophrenia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alcoholism. 13. What is one of the defining characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe's stories? A) They are set in a gothic horror world. B) They have clear moral messages. C) They are based on true events. D) They are written in a romantic style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are set in a gothic horror world. 14. What are the most common themes in Poe's stories and poems? A) Love and romance. B) Death and loss. C) Fun and adventure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death and loss. 15. POS:sojourn A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Verb. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb. 16. What did they do for the rest of that night? A) Transport the treasure to the cabin. B) Sleeping because of the exhaustion they felt. C) Guard the treasure so that it is not stolen. D) They fled very quickly from that place. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transport the treasure to the cabin. 17. The first inexplicable event was A) The appearance of the cat in the bar. B) The screams in the basement through the wall. C) The appearance of a gigantic cat with a rope around its neck. D) The house fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The appearance of a gigantic cat with a rope around its neck. 18. Why doesn't the protagonist believe that he is crazy? A) Because it was the only crime he committed in his life. B) Because the old man deserved to die. C) Since a madman does not plan a crime so well. D) Because deep down he loved the old man. E) Because it was never diagnosed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Since a madman does not plan a crime so well. 19. How would you describe the narrator's mental state in the poem 'Alone'? A) Melancholic and isolated. B) Calm and relaxed. C) Energetic and sociable. D) Happy and content. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melancholic and isolated. 20. He was recognized for his: A) Literature on terror. B) Romance. C) Essays. D) Knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literature on terror. ← 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