This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Classics > The Ransom Of Red Chief – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How much ransom money were the kidnappers asking for? A) $ 2000. B) $ 200. C) $ 1000. D) $ 1, 000, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $ 2000. 2. Sam and Bill decided to ..... in kidnapping the boy. A) Collaborate. B) Proposition. C) Pervade. D) Ransom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collaborate. 3. What was the first thing the boy did to Bill? A) Hit him in the eye with a piece of brick. B) Ride on his back for ninety miles. C) Scalp him. D) Put a hot potato down his back. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hit him in the eye with a piece of brick. 4. "And as dark as it was, and as fat as Bill was, and as good a runner as I am, he was a good mile and a half out of Summit before I could catch up with him." This is in which part of the story A) The exposition (the beginning). B) The Climax of the story. C) The resolution (the end of the story). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The resolution (the end of the story). 5. Part A:Which sentence best expresses one theme of Ransom of Red Chief A) Love is stronger than any bond. B) Friends are always there for each other. C) Greed can lead to tragedy. D) Don't underestimate the cleverness of kids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Don't underestimate the cleverness of kids. 6. What was the average price of a home in the US in 1910? A) $ 37, 000. B) $ 97, 000. C) $ 10, 000. D) $ 2, 500. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) $ 2, 500. 7. The kidnapper who reconnoiters the town to see what kinds of things the townspeople are doing to find the boy A) Red Chief. B) Ebenezer Dorset. C) Bill Driscoll. D) Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sam. 8. Burned a wound in order to stop bleeding or to promote healing. A) Courier. B) Cauterized. C) Prominent. D) Diatribe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cauterized. 9. What character traits best describe Red Chief A) Kind. B) Considerate. C) Optimistic. D) Quick-witted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quick-witted. 10. Who was the author of this short story? A) William Shakespeare. B) O. Henry. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Mark Twain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) O. Henry. 11. All of the following are adjectives EXCEPT A) Lackadaisical. B) Contiguous. C) Sylvan. D) Incontinently. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Incontinently. 12. What word best describes a character trait of the antagonist (Johnny) in the story? A) Confident. B) Mischievous (misbehaved). C) Funny. D) Serious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mischievous (misbehaved). 13. The kidnapper who wants to lower the amount of money in the ransom A) Red Chief. B) Ebenezer Dorset. C) Bill Driscoll. D) Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bill Driscoll. 14. Which word means a payment demanded for the release of a person? A) Diatribe. B) Proposition. C) Collaborate. D) Ransom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ransom. 15. The part where you find a quote and copy it word for word from the text using quotation marks or put the quote in your own words mentioning that the author states something A) Answer. B) Cite. C) Explain. D) Summarize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cite. 16. Sam says he "should have been abstracting fifteen hundred dollars from the box ..... " Which of the following definitions of abstract matches the use of the word in the sentence above? A) Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. B) Consider (something) theoretically or separately from something else. C) Extract or remove (something). D) A summary of the contents of a book, article, or formal speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extract or remove (something). 17. Necessary supplies, especially food A) Ransom. B) Peremptory. C) Surreptitiously. D) Provisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Provisions. 18. Bruises A) Discolored skin. B) Wound. C) Animal. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discolored skin. 19. Where did the narrator go to check the reaction to the kidnapping? A) Poplar Cove. B) Lone Tree. C) Summit. D) Western Illinois. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poplar Cove. 20. What is the average-hourly wage in the US in 2022? A) $ 15.25. B) $ 19.90. C) $ 27.06. D) $ 31.25. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $ 27.06. ← 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