This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Classics > The Ransom Of Red Chief – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 23 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The average price of a new car today is $ 47, 000. How much was the average car in 1910? A) $ 8, 000. B) $ 900. C) $ 275. D) $ 2, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $ 900. 2. To be unable to control one's actions or to act without restraint is to be A) Contiguous. B) Sleepy. C) Incontinent. D) Ineffable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incontinent. 3. Definition:Goods or supplies for a journey A) Prominent. B) Ransom. C) Provisions. D) Captive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Provisions. 4. An example of situational irony in O. Henry's story "The Ransom of Red Chief is that the kidnappers ..... A) Choose a child of a well-to-do citizen to kidnap for ransom. B) Actually pay money to the child's parent to return the kidnapped victim. C) Are named Sam and Bill. D) Do not choose a very good location to exchange the ransom money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Actually pay money to the child's parent to return the kidnapped victim. 5. What is included in the exposition of a story? A) The main action. B) Setting and characters. C) The solution to the problem. D) The problem begins getting more intense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting and characters. 6. Adjacent; neighboring A) Court-plaster. B) Diatribe. C) Contiguous. D) Surreptitiously. E) Sleepy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surreptitiously. 7. True or False:The Washington Monument is a prominent building in Washington, D.C. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. "AFTER 20 YEARS"What part of the story is it when Bob reads Jimmy's letter and realizes his friend turned him in? A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resolution. 9. What is a random example of repetition? A) What?. B) Run, run, run. C) Big belly bunches. D) Cruel kindness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Run, run, run. 10. (n.) condemnation; bitter, abusive criticism A) Fraudulent. B) Diatribe. C) Apparition. D) Treachery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diatribe. 11. Which word means working very hard? A) Stealthy. B) Industriously. C) Aimlessly. D) Surreptitiously. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industriously. 12. To work with another toward a goal A) Collaborate. B) Commend. C) Diatribe. D) Provisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collaborate. 13. What is Bill's wife's name? A) Sure-fire Sue. B) Slue-foot Sue. C) Simmer-down Sue. D) Silly-fish Sally. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slue-foot Sue. 14. The men believed the ..... would help them start a new future. A) Ransom. B) Comply. C) Diatribe. D) Pervade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comply. 15. The kidnapper who is most afraid of Red Chief A) Red Chief. B) Ebenezer Dorset. C) Bill Driscoll. D) Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bill Driscoll. 16. Necessary supplies, such as food A) Proposition. B) Ransom. C) Commend. D) Provisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Provisions. 17. Who were the kidnappers in the story? A) Bill. B) Sam. C) The Red Chief. D) Both a and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both a and b. 18. When an event turns out in a way that would be the opposite of what a person might logically expect, this is called A) A surprise resolution. B) Situational irony. C) Suspense. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 19. A sum of money or other payment demanded or paid for the release of a prisoner. A) Collaborate. B) Ransom. C) Commend. D) Impudent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ransom. 20. (v.) to minimize or make light of A) Impudent. B) Comply. C) Decry. D) Treachery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decry. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesThe Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 1The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 2The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 3The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 4The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 5The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 6The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 7The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 8The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 9The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books