This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How does the poem 'The Raven' conclude? A) The Raven departs, leaving the narrator in peace. B) The Raven reveals its true purpose. C) The Raven flies away to find Lenore. D) The narrator remains in torment and despair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The narrator remains in torment and despair. 2. The narrator suffered greatly and regretted his crimes ..... A) Falso. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falso. 3. When the stranger arrived at the masked ball, ..... A) The guests were horrified. B) Everyone agreed that his costume was by far the best. C) All the other guests continued dancing and laughing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The guests were horrified. 4. What personal struggles did Poe face throughout his career? A) Alcoholism and poverty. B) Loss of loved ones and tuberculosis. C) Antagonizing other writers and fame. D) Dark and brooding personality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loss of loved ones and tuberculosis. 5. He was ..... of the academy in 1831. A) Thrown-out. B) Whodunits. C) Orphaned. D) Honed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thrown-out. 6. What was released earlier? A) Golden Beetle. B) Al Aaraaf. C) Tamerlane and other poems. D) Eleonora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tamerlane and other poems. 7. The narrator of the poem is most likely Poe himself. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 8. What kind of childhood did Edgar Allan Poe have? A) He lived happy with his parents and his brother and his sister in a ranch in Boston. B) A. His father, David, left the family when Edgar was only 2, and his mother, Elizabeth, died from a tuberculosis next year. C) A. Edgar and his parents, David and Elizabeth, emigrated from Boston to Britain when he was only 1. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. His father, David, left the family when Edgar was only 2, and his mother, Elizabeth, died from a tuberculosis next year. 9. What did the narrator find on the pillow? A) A small book. B) A painting. C) A note. D) A key. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A small book. 10. What does the word 'gregarious' mean? A) A break or intermission in the occurrence of something. B) Fond of company; sociable. C) Spread or diffuse through. D) Acting with or showing care and thought for the future. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fond of company; sociable. 11. Who did Edgar Allan Poe live with after his parents' death? A) John Allan. B) Maria Clemm. C) Elmira Shelton. D) Virginia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Allan. 12. Toby hits his head against A) A window. B) The turnstile. C) The wall of the bridge. D) An iron brace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An iron brace. 13. Bonus question 2:what month is this? A) March. B) September. C) November. D) Augtober. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) November. 14. In which city did the Allan family live from 1815 to 1820? A) Richmond. B) London. C) Norfolk. D) Boston. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) London. 15. These stories served as models for future ..... A) Pondered. B) Whodunits. C) Honed. D) Impoverished. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whodunits. 16. The referee has the ..... to enforce the rules of the game. A) Influence. B) Stir. C) Authority. D) Frenzy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Authority. 17. The following sentence contains what type of figurative language? Love is blind. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. What are the 4 elements which enable us to define whether (if) a piece of writing belong to the gothic genre? A) Setting, Plot, Romantic opening, Historical figures. B) Setting, Characters, Epic fights, Treason. C) Setting, Characters, Plot, The supernatural. D) Setting, Plot, Special effects, Moral at the end. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting, Characters, Plot, The supernatural. 19. What did Poe write to Allan in 1831 about his time at the University? A) He felt like an outcast and had no one who cared for him. B) He had a great time and made many friends. C) He regretted not enrolling in a third course. D) He blamed Allan for his lack of success. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He felt like an outcast and had no one who cared for him. 20. The following sentence contains what type of figurative language? I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. A) Oxymoron. B) Situational Irony. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 21. What is the outcome of the story 'The Pit and the Pendulum'? A) The outcome of the story 'The Well and the Pendulum' is that the protagonist is rescued just before falling into a well and being cut by a pendulum, managing to escape his terrible fate. B) The protagonist dies after falling into the well and being cut by the pendulum. C) The protagonist decides to stay in the well and face his destiny. D) The protagonist manages to escape but is captured again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The outcome of the story 'The Well and the Pendulum' is that the protagonist is rescued just before falling into a well and being cut by a pendulum, managing to escape his terrible fate. 22. What inspired Edgar Allan Poe's storytelling? A) His parents. B) His Godfather. C) His heartbreak. D) The dark and spooky evenings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The dark and spooky evenings. 23. Who led the revival of interest in Poe at the University in the late 1890s? A) Rufus Griswold. B) Professor George Long. C) Sculptor George Julian Zolnay. D) Professor Charles W. Kent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Professor Charles W. Kent. 24. What does the term superstition mean? A) An unjustified belief in supernatural causes leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief. B) A mental illness such as severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot manage own affairs or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An unjustified belief in supernatural causes leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief. 25. 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. 26. 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. 27. Where was Edgar Allan Poe from? A) United States. B) Great Britain. C) Germany. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) United States. 28. Roderick Usher looks exactly the same as he did before. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 29. Grim and desolate are synonyms of bleak A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 30. From the text it can be inferred that Sully is: A) The owner of the castle. B) The servant. C) The portrait painter. D) Any painter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any painter. 31. 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) Dreary. B) Angel. C) Drink. D) Feather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feather. 32. 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. 33. Persistent, to the point of annoyance A) Contemplation. B) Cunning. C) Dilapidation. D) Importunate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Importunate. 34. Annabel Lee:This poem is dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe's wife who died at a young age from ..... A) A stoke. B) The Plague. C) Tuberculosis. D) Cancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tuberculosis. 35. What illness did the protagonist have? A) Cancer. B) Diabetes. C) Alcoholism. D) Schizophrenia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alcoholism. 36. What is one of the defining characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe's stories? A) They are based on true events. B) They are set in a gothic horror world. C) They have clear moral messages. D) They are written in a romantic style. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are set in a gothic horror world. 37. 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. 38. What did they do for the rest of that night? A) Transport the treasure to the cabin. B) They fled very quickly from that place. C) Guard the treasure so that it is not stolen. D) Sleeping because of the exhaustion they felt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transport the treasure to the cabin. 39. 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. 40. 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. 41. He was recognized for his: A) Literature on terror. B) Knowledge. C) Essays. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literature on terror. 42. Relationship paroquet-condor in the poem A) Old-young. B) Young-old. C) Green-black. D) Big-small. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Young-old. 43. What is the meaning of the word 'dauntless'? A) The visual percept of a region. B) The quality of a color determined by its dominant wavelength. C) Invulnerable to fear or intimidation. D) A person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Invulnerable to fear or intimidation. 44. What is the central theme of the poem "A Dream" ? A) The power of memory. B) The beauty of nature. C) The importance of love. D) The blurring of dreams and reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The blurring of dreams and reality. 45. Fill in the blank:The young man enjoyed his ..... Large groups made him uncomfortable. A) Pendulum. B) Seclusion. C) Refrain. D) Supposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seclusion. 46. In "The Pit and the Pendulum", the narrator ..... before he walked around his cell. A) Talked to his jailer. B) Tried to cut a bar. C) Dropped a rag. D) Said a prayer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dropped a rag. 47. "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" A) ED SHEERAN. B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. 48. How did the animal feel about the narrator? A) He was indifferent. B) He was afraid of him. C) He loved him. D) He hated him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He loved him. 49. Which room at the University of Virginia is believed to have been slept in by Edgar Allan Poe? A) Room No. 7. B) Room No. 13. C) Room No. 17. D) Room No. 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Room No. 13. 50. Why did Edgar Allan Poe get kicked out of West Point academy? A) Gross neglect of duty. B) Gambling debts. C) Rebellious behavior. D) Falling grades. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gross neglect of duty. 51. Identify the ADJECTIVES in this sentence: "Lazy people often lead dull lives." A) Lazy, dull. B) Lazy. C) Lives. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lazy, dull. 52. According to the reading and its vocabulary, CANVAS refers to ..... A) A piece of wood to paint on. B) A piece of fabric to paint on. C) A program to make infographics. D) A starring from a tv show. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A piece of fabric to paint on. 53. Poe used these to turn readers into active participants ..... A) Form and style. B) Haunted castles and mansions. C) Dungeons and secret rooms. D) Unreliable narrators. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unreliable narrators. 54. Who called the police and why? A) A neighbor, well, heard a scream and assumed a murder. B) The old man before his death. C) His neighbor was suspicious of the young man's attitude days later. D) A neighbor, I suspect since I no longer see the old man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A neighbor, well, heard a scream and assumed a murder. 55. At the time of his death, Poe was engaged to ..... A) Maryanne. B) Elmira. C) Barbara. D) Virginia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elmira. 56. Choose the example of irony from the poem- A) The narrator is afraid of the dark, but he is up a midnight. B) The Raven sits on a statue of wisdom, but it can't really answer the narrator's questions. C) The bust of Pallas is pallid, but the Raven is dark ebony. D) The narrator is happy to be alone, but welcomes the company of the Raven. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Raven sits on a statue of wisdom, but it can't really answer the narrator's questions. 57. An edge tool for cutting grass A) Pit. B) Slimy. C) Scythe. D) Pendulum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scythe. 58. What does the protagonist do with the victim's body? A) Buries him in the backyard. B) Hides it in the closet. C) He dismembers him and eats his remains. D) He dismembers it and hides the remains under the floor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He dismembers it and hides the remains under the floor. 59. The second cat reminds the protagonist of the first cat because A) It was almost all black. B) He had a white spot on his chest. C) I followed him everywhere. D) I rejected it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was almost all black. 60. What is wrong with Poe's monument? A) His name is spelled wrong. B) His birthday is written wrong. C) His death date is written wrong. D) None of above. 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