This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What word does the raven repeat? A) Prophet. B) Eat my shorts. C) Lenore. D) Nevermore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nevermore. 2. Is this poem about romantic love? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 3. "At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon" A) ED SHEERAN. B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. 4. What inanimate object associates its existence with that of one of the characters? A) The Gold Bug. B) The House of Usher. C) The stolen letter. D) The black cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The House of Usher. 5. What did the Dale Hester do in his story? A) Hung his cat with a rope. B) Throw an apple at his wife. C) Go swimming. D) Ride his bike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Throw an apple at his wife. 6. The main characters of the story are A) The narrator and his assistant. B) The painter and his wife. C) The painter, his ambition and his wife. D) The narrator, the painter and his wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The narrator, the painter and his wife. 7. "These were days when my heart was volcanic" A) ED SHEERAN. B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. 8. Which word best describes how Gothic horror stories make the reader feel? A) Joy. B) Amusement. C) Anxiety. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anxiety. 9. What is the first word the Raven utters when it enters the room? A) 'Lenore'. B) 'Greetings'. C) 'Nevermore'. D) 'Forgive me'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 'Nevermore'. 10. What is the main psychological trait of the protagonist of The Tell-Tale Heart? A) It's nervous. B) It's religious. C) He is proud. D) He is fearful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It's nervous. 11. According to the poem, what is the nature of the "holy dream" mentioned? A) A dream that is filled with fear and nightmares. B) A dream that is pleasant and brings happiness. C) A dream that is forgotten as soon as one wakes up. D) A dream that is considered impure and wicked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A dream that is pleasant and brings happiness. 12. "Annabel Lee" is a A) Lyric Poem. B) Prologue. C) Sonnet. D) Narrative Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric Poem. 13. What changes did your temperament undergo? A) He became melancholic and indifferent to the feelings of others. B) He became more energetic with the people around him. C) He became more cheerful and playful with his animals. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He became melancholic and indifferent to the feelings of others. 14. Disrespectful behavior(a willingness to take bold risks) A) Wary. B) Vexed. C) Audacity. D) Derision. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audacity. 15. Fill in the blank:The children swung back and forth on the swing set. They looked like a clock's ..... A) Extremity. B) Pendulum. C) Supposition. D) Vex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pendulum. 16. What is the definition of consonance? A) A story that reveals a hidden meaning. B) The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words. C) A reference to a person, place, or thing of historical significance. D) Repetition of similar sounds, especially consonants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition of similar sounds, especially consonants. 17. "Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!" A) The Tell-Tale Heart. B) The Cask of Amontillado. C) Annabel Lee. D) The Raven. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Cask of Amontillado. 18. Edgar Allan Poe was raised by his ..... A) Aunt. B) Foster parents. C) Grandparents. D) Brother's family. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foster parents. 19. What adjectives clearly define the protagonist? A) Perverse and heartless. B) Confused philosopher. C) Handsome and partying. D) Overflowing and sincere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perverse and heartless. 20. Instead of a paragraph, in poetry we call the chunks ..... A) Stan. B) Sections. C) Path. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanzas. 21. "I must not only punish, but punish with impunity." A) The Raven. B) The Cask of Amontillado. C) The Tell-Tale Heart. D) Annabel Lee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Cask of Amontillado. 22. Which statement best describes Poe's writing career? A) He was successful right away!. B) He never made it big. C) He found success later in life. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He found success later in life. 23. What is the BIG QUESTION (theme) for this poem? A) How do people handle loss?. B) Why do people dream?. C) What does it take to be a survivor?. D) What are you willing to sacrifice?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How do people handle loss?. 24. Jupiter climbed a huge tree by order of Legrand. What did he discover on a branch? A) A huge eagle owl. B) A human skull. C) Another huge beetle. D) A wooden chest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A human skull. 25. What does the raven say when asked about its name? A) Evermore. B) Forevermore. C) Nevermore. D) Lenore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nevermore. 26. What does the narrator do when he hears the anxiety-inducing sound while talking to the police officers? A) Pretend not to hear anything. B) He talks loudly and walks heavily across the floor. C) Pushes officers out of room. D) He asks the officers if they hear him too. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He talks loudly and walks heavily across the floor. 27. What is the date of birth of Edgar Allan Poe? A) 1801. B) 1802. C) 1809. D) 1983. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1809. 28. What strategy is used by Poe to distort reality? A) Fake scenarios. B) Dreaming. C) Madness or melancholy. D) Changing time perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madness or melancholy. 29. What were Poe's biological parents dedicated to? A) Merchants. B) Profesores. C) Doctors. D) Writers. E) Actors. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Actors. 30. The Raven:What does the Raven represent? A) Hope. B) Forgiveness. C) Hopelessness. D) Myths and memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hopelessness. 31. Which of the following alternatives best describes the psychological atmosphere of the story? A) Tranquility, relaxation and confidence. B) Terror, loneliness and inhuman. C) Bright, happy and small. D) Humiliating, bloody and spacious. E) Tension, madness and fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Tension, madness and fear. 32. Select the correct term to match the definition below. A person, especially a public official, who institutes legal proceedings against someone A) Jury. B) Defense. C) Criminal. D) Prosecutor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prosecutor. 33. Which description would fit the best in a Gothic horror story? A) A talking horse that tells jokes. B) A gloomy fog on a dark night. C) A squeaky table in a peaceful library. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A gloomy fog on a dark night. 34. In the first 2 stanzas, Annabel Lee is portrayed as: A) A young and foolish girl. B) A child swept away by the love of the narrator. C) A middle-aged woman scarred by love. D) A girl who has run away from home. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A child swept away by the love of the narrator. 35. At what age did both his mother and wife die? A) 75. B) 36. C) 24. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 24. 36. In what year did Edgar Allan Poe publish his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems? A) 1839. B) 1827. C) 1820. D) 1833. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1827. 37. Edgar Allan Poe was born in A) 1809. B) 1209. C) 1864. D) 1477. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1809. 38. Why is the raven a fitting bird to show up in his room? A) Ravens are evil birds that attack people. B) Ravens are Zeus' favorite bird. C) Ravens are said to bring bad news. D) Ravens are bringers of good luck. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ravens are said to bring bad news. 39. When Virginia was married she was A) 14 years. B) 19 years. C) 12 years. D) 13 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13 years. 40. What is the character's concern for readers that leads him to meticulously explain his plan? A) Let them believe him crazy. B) Let them think he is a cold and ruthless killer. C) Let them assume that he acted irrationally, without thinking about it. D) They don't understand why he really killed the old man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Let them believe him crazy. 41. Who escaped the fire? A) The narrator, the wife and their children. B) The narrator, his wife and a servant. C) The narrator, his wife and Pluto. D) The narrator and his wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The narrator, his wife and a servant. 42. His foster father name was A) David. B) Poe. C) Raven. D) John. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John. 43. In his life, the narrator has had several animals. Which? A) Birds, a golden fish, a beautiful dog, rabbits, a monkey and a cat. B) Birds, a goldfish, a dog, rabbits, a monkey and a cat. C) Birds, a dog, a cat, a goldfish, a hamster and a monkey. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birds, a golden fish, a beautiful dog, rabbits, a monkey and a cat. 44. The museum is asking for people to ..... historical artifacts to add to their collection. A) Donate. B) Fanciful. C) Influence. D) Inquire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Donate. 45. What is the definition of allegory? A) A story that reveals a hidden meaning. B) The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words. C) A reference to a person, place, or thing of historical significance. D) Repetition of similar sounds, especially consonants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A story that reveals a hidden meaning. 46. What does the word 'capricious' mean? A) A break or intermission in the occurrence of something. B) Lacking spontaneity; not natural. C) Spread or diffuse through. D) Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior. 47. Who was Jupiter? A) He was the biological father of William Legrand. B) He was a powerful ancestor of Legrand. C) He was an old black man who was always with Legrand. D) He was the person who ruled Sullivan's Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was an old black man who was always with Legrand. 48. What did Edgar Allan Poe consider as the unity of effect in his stories? A) The ability to convey a clear moral message. B) The ability to create a sense of mystery. C) The ability to evoke intense emotions. D) The ability to scare the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The ability to evoke intense emotions. 49. Who wrote the well and the pendulum and the gold bug? A) Miguel de Cervantes. B) Gabriela Mistral. C) Jose bohr. D) Edgar allan poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edgar allan poe. 50. What does Jupiter blame for Legrand's condition? A) Jupiter blames heartbreak. B) Jupiter blames the beetle. C) Jupiter blames the narrator himself. D) Jupiter blames the island's climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jupiter blames the beetle. 51. Skillful in achieving one's ends by deceit; sly A) Cunning. B) Ungainly. C) Importunate. D) Pallid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cunning. 52. Dark Romantic authors ..... A) Focus on the perfectibility of mankind. B) Focus on religion and redemption. C) Focus on the effects of sin and guilt on man's soul. D) Focus on the force of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Focus on the effects of sin and guilt on man's soul. 53. What is the name of the disease that killed so many people that Poe loved and is represented by the "red death" ? A) Insanity. B) Tuberculosis. C) Brain cancer. D) Delirium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tuberculosis. 54. Poe's parents were frowned upon for being theater actors. A) TRUE. B) Falso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 55. Where had they kept the letter? A) Under the wooden floor. B) In a silver chest. C) In a cardboard card holder. D) Behind the door. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In a cardboard card holder. 56. What is the speaker's emotional state in the poem? A) Weary and sorrowful. B) Joyful and hopeful. C) Angry and resentful. D) Calm and content. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weary and sorrowful. 57. What are some of the symbols used in the poem 'Alone' and what do they represent? A) Some symbols used in the poem 'Alone' are the night, the stars, and the sea, which represent loneliness, hope, and the unknown, respectively. B) The mountains, representing fear. C) The sun, representing darkness. D) The moon, representing companionship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Some symbols used in the poem 'Alone' are the night, the stars, and the sea, which represent loneliness, hope, and the unknown, respectively. 58. Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his ..... A) Short stories and poems. B) Plays and essays. C) Career as a writing critic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Short stories and poems. 59. What two feelings does Roderick Usher alternate between? A) Excited and Anxious. B) Energetic and Tired. C) Courageous and Frightened . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excited and Anxious. 60. Horror fiction in Europe was first established in: A) The Renaissance. B) The Middle Ages. C) Ancient Greece and Rome. D) 19th century England. 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