This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 53 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 53 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did people call him? A) The raven. B) The father of the beautiful stories. C) The father of the detective stories. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The father of the detective stories. 2. "I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, " A) The Cask of Amontillado. B) The Tell-Tale Heart. C) Annabel Lee. D) The Raven. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Annabel Lee. 3. How old was Edgar when his mother died? A) 12. B) 4. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 4. Who did the narrator hope was at the door? A) The raven. B) Lenore. C) A seraphim. D) An echo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lenore. 5. The three characters begin to dig a new hole, but Legrand's dog beats them to it. What did he find? A) A buried treasure. B) The bones of two human skeletons. C) The corpse of a person. D) The entrance to an underground tunnel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The bones of two human skeletons. 6. Seraphs means A) Envied. B) A place of burial; tomb. C) Disunite; separate. D) Any of the highest order of angels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any of the highest order of angels. 7. What genre does "The Oval Portrait" belong to? A) Lyrical. B) Narrative. C) Dramatic. D) Didactic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 8. At what age did Edgar Allan Poe pass away? A) 30. B) 35. C) 40. D) 45. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 40. 9. The Murders in the Rue Morgue is one of the most characteristic stories of Edgar Allan Poe, in this we can see his skill in the field of the detective story, considered at that time as an art. Indicate what type of narrator the story presents: A) Omniscient narrator. B) Witness narrator. C) Third person narrator. D) Equiscient narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Witness narrator. 10. Word choice in Edgar Allan Poe's poems affects the tone of his poems? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. What is one of your worst works A) Smoothness. B) There is no Edgar Allan Poe. C) The Raven. D) The Gold Bug. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smoothness. 12. From what place was the story The Black Cat told? A) From beyond the grave. B) From jail. C) From a monastery. D) Doesn't mention the place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From jail. 13. He called the customer service line to ..... about the status of his order. A) Frenzy. B) Mourn. C) Investigate. D) Inquire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inquire. 14. He is regal, selfish and arrogant A) Characterization. B) Climax. C) Theme. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization. 15. What is Gothic Literature? A) Nature and Seasons. B) Dark and Humorous. C) Tragic and Dramatic. D) Horror and Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horror and Romance. 16. Two of the most representative books published by Edgar Allan Poe were written in 1840 and 1845, which were: A) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the Count of Montesquieu. B) Journey to the center of the earth, blue. C) Tales of the grotesque and the arabesque, the crow. D) Tales from beyond the grave, the haunted mansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tales of the grotesque and the arabesque, the crow. 17. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven, " what happens at the end of the poem that puts the speaker over the edge? A) The bird tells the speaker his strange name. B) The speaker realizes the bird's message will always haunt him. C) The bird suddenly flies away into the dark night. D) The speaker sees Lenore's ghost outside his door. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker realizes the bird's message will always haunt him. 18. Why did you decide to kill the cat? A) Just because. B) Because he felt sorry for her. C) Because by doing so he committed sin. D) Accidentally. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because by doing so he committed sin. 19. Did you have a legal adoption process? A) Yes, it is legalized. B) No, it was not legalized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No, it was not legalized. 20. What does the narrator describe when looking at the oval portrait? A) A bucolic landscape. B) A beautiful woman. C) A gloomy scene. D) A mysterious knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A beautiful woman. ← 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