This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following answer choices BEST describes the overall structure of the article? A) Cause and effect. B) Sequence /chronological order. C) Problem and solution. D) Compare and contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sequence /chronological order. 2. What's the name of the story? A) The Black Dog. B) The Black Bird. C) The Black Cat. D) The Black Fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Black Cat. 3. How did the first cat die? A) He strangled it with his hands. B) He threw the cat out of the window. C) He stabbed it with a knife. D) He hung it on a beam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He hung it on a beam. 4. Complete with the similies. As cold as ..... A) Ice. B) Your hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ice. 5. Explain the symbolism of the imagery used in the poem 'Alone' and its effect on the reader. A) The symbolism in the poem 'Alone' makes the reader feel bored and uninterested. B) The imagery in the poem 'Alone' has no effect on the reader. C) The imagery in the poem 'Alone' creates a sense of joy and excitement in the reader. D) The symbolism of the imagery in the poem 'Alone' creates a sense of melancholy and introspection in the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The symbolism of the imagery in the poem 'Alone' creates a sense of melancholy and introspection in the reader. 6. Relating to written stories A) Literary. B) Pondered. C) Mrs. Hautz. D) Enlisted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary. 7. The poet was considered the father of modern detective stories and his first detective novel was A) Usher's house. B) Silence. C) Murder in the Rue Morgue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Murder in the Rue Morgue. 8. What was the cause of Virginia Poe's death? A) Pneumonia. B) Respiratory illness. C) Tuberculosis. D) Jealousy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tuberculosis. 9. What did the narrator first do to the cat? A) He cut out its ear. B) He cut out its eye. C) He cut out its tail. D) He cut out its neck. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He cut out its eye. 10. What is the work Raven by type? A) Ep. B) Poem. C) Elegy. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 11. What did the animal have in common with the other cat? A) It had no ears. B) It only had one eye. C) It was all black. D) It had no tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It only had one eye. 12. What constituted for Dupin his only luxury in Paris? A) The heat, the mental freshness and the great opportunities for fortuitous economics. B) The conferences since Paris offered the best in the world. C) Books and in Paris it was not difficult to get them. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Books and in Paris it was not difficult to get them. 13. How are The Bad Beginning and Edgar Allan Poe different? A) One is persuasive text and the other is informational. B) One is a poem and the other a flyer. C) One is informational and the other fictional. D) One is nonfiction and the other a drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One is informational and the other fictional. 14. The uninvited guest enters the castle and he and the prince duel. A) Falling action. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 15. What type of stories did Poe write according to the video? A) Science fiction. B) Comedy. C) Terror. D) Amor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Terror. 16. What is the allusion in the following line?Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore? A) Lordly name and Night's Plutonian shore allude to the ruler of the underworld. B) Night's alludes to Chronos, the god of time. C) Plutonian alludes to Christian heaven. D) Tell me alludes to the the god of communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lordly name and Night's Plutonian shore allude to the ruler of the underworld. 17. The following sentence contains what type of figurative language? A self-professed animal lover commits unspeakable crimes against animals. A) Metaphor. B) Verbal Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational Irony. 18. In the end, does the narrator confess his crime? A) Yeah. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yeah. 19. State true or false the following statement about The Oblong Box:The story begins in a port in England. A) Falso. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falso. 20. The first brutal act that the man commits with the cat is A) Kill him with an axe. B) Hang him. C) Take out an eye. D) Burn it down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Take out an eye. 21. Which line uses alliteration? A) The moon in June. B) Rushing, raging rivers run. C) The snow is a blanket. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rushing, raging rivers run. 22. Have a close similarity; match or agree almost exactly. A) Seclusion. B) Correspond. C) Supposition. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correspond. 23. The wife's crime A) Remains unpunished. B) He is avenged by his family. C) Discovered five years later. D) He is discovered by the police. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is discovered by the police. 24. What was the name of the first literary detective? A) Arthur Sterling. B) Auguste Dupin. C) Atticus Sterling. D) Atticus Dupin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auguste Dupin. 25. Select the words that best describe Edgar Allan Poe's style of writing: A) Humorous, joyful. B) Mysterious, suspenseful. C) Encouraging, hopeful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mysterious, suspenseful. 26. What do people dress up as on Halloween? A) Animals. B) Historical figures. C) Movie monsters or TV characters. D) Superheroes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Movie monsters or TV characters. 27. How the factory burned A) Because he wanted to kill everyone. B) Fire caused by IT. C) It got smeared with sewer slime floating around. D) It's just that they were washing and they didn't do their job well and they neglected it and it flooded. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fire caused by IT. 28. What should Jupiter do with the skull? A) Run away from her as soon as possible. B) Pray several prayers. C) Remove the nail that holds it. D) Pass the beetle through the hole in an eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pass the beetle through the hole in an eye. 29. Genre to which "The Black Cat" belongs A) Tale. B) Narrative. C) Literary. D) Terror. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 30. What are two principles present in all of Poe's stories? A) Unity and reason. B) Truth and fiction. C) Madness and joy. D) Hope and dreams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unity and reason. 31. According to Poe, what are the two cardinal rules for the short story form? A) It must be long enough to read in one sitting and every word must contribute to its purpose. B) It must be short enough to read in one sitting and every word must contribute to its purpose. C) It must be long enough to read in one sitting and every word must be descriptive. D) It must be short enough to read in one sitting and every word must be descriptive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It must be short enough to read in one sitting and every word must contribute to its purpose. 32. The coach's leadership style had a positive ..... on the team's performance. A) Investigate. B) Mourn. C) Influence. D) Stir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Influence. 33. What happened to the narrator's house after he killed the cat? A) There was a fire. B) There was an explosion. C) There was a flood. D) There was a tornado. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There was a fire. 34. What is the adjective in "my poor wife" ? A) Mi. B) Poor. C) Women. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poor. 35. The Cask of Amontillado:How does Montresor murder Fortunato? A) He drowns him in the river beneath the city. B) He poisons him with wine. C) He locks him in the catacombs. D) He hits him over the head with a wine bottle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He locks him in the catacombs. 36. What social changes were there in Poe's time? A) War times. B) End of a civil war. C) Oppression by the English. D) Political separations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End of a civil war. 37. What is the definition of dramatic irony? A) The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words. B) A story that reveals a hidden meaning. C) A reference to a person, place, or thing of historical significance. D) When a reader or audience is aware of something that a character isn't. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When a reader or audience is aware of something that a character isn't. 38. The stolen letter according to the narrative was found in A) Under the bed. B) In the middle of the street. C) In the kitchen oven. D) A card holder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A card holder. 39. The following sentence contains what type of figurative language? Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 40. "We passed through a range of low arches, descended, pass on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame." A) The Tell-Tale Heart. B) The Cask of Amontillado. C) The Raven. D) Annabel Lee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Cask of Amontillado. 41. Why is Mr. Valdemar interested in the experiment proposed by the narrator? A) He wants to become famous. B) He is terminally ill and hopes for relief. C) He is curious about hypnosis. D) He is a scientist conducting similar experiments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is terminally ill and hopes for relief. 42. What is the belief about the "black cat" ? A) What are little elves?. B) What are metamorphosed witches?. C) What are fairy tales?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What are metamorphosed witches?. 43. The versions of the witnesses seem to be consistent except for one detail ..... A) The voice timbres. B) The language they speak. C) The number of people. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The language they speak. 44. Who fostered Edgar Allan Poe after his parents' death? A) John and Frances Allan. B) The Mackenzie family. C) His grandparents in Baltimore. D) David and Elizabeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John and Frances Allan. 45. The Tell-Tale Heart:What does the deathwatch beetle symbolize in the story? A) Death. B) Life. C) Innocence. D) Guilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death. 46. Who helped the protagonist escape from the pendulum's condemnation? A) Some French soldiers. B) The inquisitors. C) The rats. D) He managed to free himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rats. 47. What were the windows in the suite of rooms made of? A) Transparent glass. B) Blue glass. C) Green glass. D) Stained glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stained glass. 48. If Poe had not become a writer, what did his college friends think he might become? A) Dancer. B) Actor. C) Artist. D) Musician. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Artist. 49. How many songs did the first published collection of poetry contain? A) 52. B) 50. C) 40. D) 38. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 50. 50. It was adopted by: A) Profesor. B) Lawyer. C) Actor. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Merchant. 51. What does the word 'vivacious' mean? A) A break or intermission in the occurrence of something. B) Lacking spontaneity; not natural. C) Spread or diffuse through. D) Attractively lively and animated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attractively lively and animated. 52. Characteristics that made the two cats identical A) The color black and they didn't have an eye. B) The black color and the white spot on the chest. C) That they both loved the woman. D) The color black. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The color black and they didn't have an eye. 53. His financial situation was ..... A) Stable. B) Deplorable. C) Unfinished. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stable. 54. Beyond being an author, what did Edgar Allan Poe do for a living? A) Editor. B) Doctor. C) Mortician. D) Officiant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Editor. 55. What is the nationality of the author of the Rue Morgue crimes? A) Colombian. B) United States. C) Mexican. D) British. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) United States. 56. Where (city) was he born? A) In Miami. B) In Los Angeles. C) In Boston. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In Boston. 57. What type of literature did Edgar Allan Poe develop? A) Romance novel. B) Science fiction novel. C) Historical novel. D) Detective novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Detective novel. 58. What pets did the narrator have? A) Birds, fish, a dog, and a cat. B) Birds, a dog, and a cat. C) Fish and a cat. D) Fish, birds, and a cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birds, fish, a dog, and a cat. 59. Whose death did "The Raven" predict? A) Poe's wife, Virginia. B) Poe's mother. C) Poe's adopted mother, Mrs. Allen. D) Poe's own death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poe's wife, Virginia. 60. So this is continuous happiness/ You know, I always imagined it something more A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Emo lyrics. 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