This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the narrator find when they open the door? A) A treasure. B) Darkness. C) Sunshine. D) A ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darkness. 2. Which detail from the poem best indicates how the narrator feels about the Raven when he first appears? A) Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly" (49). B) "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling" (43). C) "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door" (101)!. D) " Leave my loneliness unbroken" (100)!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling" (43). 3. What did the narrator ask Pedro to do? A) Close the curtains. B) Open the windows. C) Turn off the lights. D) Light the candles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Light the candles. 4. What did the painter do when he finished the portrait? A) He realized his wife was dead. B) He celebrated with his wife. C) He showed it to his friends. D) He sold it to a museum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He realized his wife was dead. 5. What was the disease that Virginia contracted? A) Covid 19. B) Polio. C) Tuberculosis. D) Eczema. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tuberculosis. 6. As blind as a ..... A) Bat. B) Carrot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bat. 7. Which work of Edgar Allan Poe stunned the actor, John Astin? A) The Purloined Letter. B) The Tell-Tale Heart. C) The Casket of Amontillado. D) The Pit and the Pendulum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Purloined Letter. 8. State the following statement about The Oblong Box as true or false:At first, the protagonist believes that Wyatt's wife is very inferior to him. A) Falso. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 9. Where was he born? A) In Germany. B) In the USA. C) In the Uk. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the USA. 10. What genre did Poe invent with his stories featuring C. Auguste Dupin? A) Detective. B) Horror. C) Satire. D) Science fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Detective. 11. HOW DO THE POLICE FIND OUT CRIME? A) BRINGING DOWN THE WALL. B) DESTRUYENDO LOS MUROS DE TODA LA CASA. C) WITH THE COMMENTS OF THE NEIGHBORS. D) ALL OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BRINGING DOWN THE WALL. 12. How was Poe's childhood similar to his adulthood? A) Both were pleasant times that offered him many opportunities. B) Both were times of tremendous learning and education. C) Both were times of misery and very challenging. D) Both were uneventful times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both were times of misery and very challenging. 13. The following sentence contains what type of figurative language? The city never sleeps. A) Verbal irony. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. To bring into being or to produce A) Generate. B) Macabre. C) Docile. D) Task. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generate. 15. What can we learn about the narrator based on the following line? " ..... I understood well what the old man was experiencing, and I pitied him, even though laughter parted my lips" A) He is a compassionate man. B) Are cruel. C) It's honest. D) It's quiet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are cruel. 16. Roderick recited a poem to the narrator A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 17. According to the protagonist, what sharpened his senses? A) An illness. B) A visual infection. C) A dream. D) A nightmare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An illness. 18. What color velvet in the room with red crystals? A) Rojo. B) Verde. C) Negro. D) Purple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negro. 19. What caused the character's character change? A) Alcoholism. B) Deadly disease. C) Divorce. D) Schizophrenia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alcoholism. 20. Who is the author of the story 'The Well and the Pendulum'? A) Stephen King. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) William Shakespeare. D) J.K. Rowling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edgar Allan Poe. 21. The narrator tries to A) Jump over the turnstile. B) Bet the devil Toby's head. C) Keep Toby's mother away from him. D) Stop Toby from betting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stop Toby from betting. 22. The genre on which the stories are mainly based is A) Drama. B) Suspended. C) Short novel. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suspended. 23. Which character was invited to visit Roderick Usher? A) The Narrator. B) The King. C) Madeline Usher. D) Ethelred. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Narrator. 24. As white as a ..... A) Sheep. B) Ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ghost. 25. For what genre of literature is Edgar Allan Poe known? A) Satire. B) Gothic Horror. C) Mystery. D) Romantic Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gothic Horror. 26. How long did it take the painter to finish his work? A) Some days. B) One my. C) Many weeks. D) Several years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Many weeks. 27. What does the narrator want to forget? A) Lenore. B) His sorrow. C) The raven. D) Pallas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His sorrow. 28. Terrible, pitiful A) Atrocity. B) Wretched. C) Task. D) Remorse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wretched. 29. What should the mythological drink nepenthe bring to the lyrical subject? A) Contact with the deceased. B) Immortality. C) Oblivion. D) New love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oblivion. 30. How did the narrator change? A) He became sick and had to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. B) He became selfish and started abusing his wife and his pets. C) He became ill and had to stay in bed. D) He became poor and started fighting with his wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He became selfish and started abusing his wife and his pets. 31. The story of the portrait, told in the last paragraph, answers the narrator's question referred to in the paragraph: A) 4. B) 3. C) 5. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 32. What was the cat's name? A) Saturn. B) Uranus. C) Pluto. D) Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pluto. 33. WHAT IS THE CHANGE OF THE PROTAGONIST ATTRIBUTED TO? A) THE BAD RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS WIFE. B) YOUR DEPRESSION. C) THE ALCOHOLISM. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) THE ALCOHOLISM. 34. What will happen to the narrator for his crime? A) Life in prison. B) Head cut off. C) Electric chair. D) Hanged. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hanged. 35. Which type of writing style is reflected in Poe's short stories? A) There's not a dominant one. B) It is plain. C) Hypotaxis. D) Multi-connector. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There's not a dominant one. 36. What ancient Celtic festival is Halloween said to have originated from? A) Valentine's Day. B) Oktoberfest. C) St. Patrick's Day. D) Samhain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Samhain. 37. The Raven:As the man continues to think about Lenore he asks the Raven, "Is there no balm in Gilead?" This is an allusion to what verse in the Bible? A) Jeremiah 8:22. B) Jeremiah 2:28. C) Jeremiah 28:28. D) Jeremiah 22:8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jeremiah 8:22. 38. An angelic being A) Sepulchre. B) Seraph. C) Vex. D) Waned. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seraph. 39. What did the narrator first do to Pluto? A) He cut out its paw. B) He cut out its eye. C) He cut out its ear. D) He cut out its tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He cut out its eye. 40. Which word means "extremely irritated, frustrated, or annoyed?" A) Immolation. B) Exasperated. C) Paltry. D) Pertinacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exasperated. 41. How does the House of Usher react to the death of Madeline? A) It becomes brighter and more vibrant. B) It catches fire. C) It is indifferent to her death. D) It collapses into ruins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It collapses into ruins. 42. What is the narrator's profession in the story? A) Doctor. B) Scientist. C) Detective. D) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Doctor. 43. What is the main theme in The Black Cat? A) Animal abuse. B) The obsession with something that is out of our reach. C) Moral degradation due to a demon in the form of a cat. D) The consequences of violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moral degradation due to a demon in the form of a cat. 44. What emotion does the narrator feel when he sees the mark on the wall? A) Indifference. B) Happiness. C) Euphoria. D) Culpa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Culpa. 45. Who was in charge of dividing your work into categories? A) Julio Cortazar. B) Marie Shelley. C) H.P. Lovecraft. D) Virginia Clemm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Julio Cortazar. 46. The narrator of the text is: A) Intradiegetic-secondary character. B) Extradiegetic and omniscient. C) Intradiegetic-protagonist and extradiegetic. D) Extradiegetic and witness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intradiegetic-protagonist and extradiegetic. 47. Who took in Edgar Allan Poe after he was orphaned? A) Virginia Eliza Clemm. B) Rufus Wilmot Griswold. C) John Allan. D) Frances Allan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Allan. 48. Whom does the knight meet in the poem? A) A shadow. B) A pilgrim shadow. C) A pilgrim. D) Another knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pilgrim shadow. 49. What does the narrator do with his wife's body? A) He cut it up into pieces. B) He put her in a wall. C) He burnt it. D) He threw it to the lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He put her in a wall. 50. " ..... his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming" A) ED SHEERAN. B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. 51. Where did Edgar Allan Poe die? A) Boston, Massachusetts. B) Baltimore, Maryland. C) New York City, New York. D) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baltimore, Maryland. 52. The wine had a ..... aftertaste, which made it pair well with seafood. A) Tart. B) Mourn. C) Influence. D) Basic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tart. 53. What does the narrator first believe the tapping at his chamber door to be? A) A burglar. B) The wind. C) A visitor. D) A ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A visitor. 54. You can guess that the little old gentleman is really A) Toby's consience. B) The narrator. C) The devil. D) Toby's father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The devil. 55. Why does the man detail all the events precisely? A) He is writing a book. B) Because he will die tomorrow and he wants to relieve his soul. C) Because you want to confess. D) Because he wants to prove that he is not crazy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he will die tomorrow and he wants to relieve his soul. 56. What is the meaning of eternal Condor years? A) Some years passed by. B) Eternity. C) Many passing years. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Many passing years. 57. In what year was Poe born and died? A) 1994-2022. B) 2010-2045. C) 1709-1849. D) 1809-1849. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1809-1849. 58. How is the theme of "Alone" revealed in the events that unfold in the poem? (6A) A) The speaker describes his childhood as the beginning of a lonely and stormy life. B) The speaker listens to sounds in nature and wants to take control of his passions. C) The speaker sees a cloud in the sky that makes him wish he was surrounded by friends. D) The speaker observes colors of autumn and wants to create art to inspire others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The speaker describes his childhood as the beginning of a lonely and stormy life. 59. Which word means "an act of great cruelness or wickedness?" A) Atrocity. B) Conspicuous. C) Paltry. D) Sagacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atrocity. 60. Poe found inspiration to use a raven from ..... A) Oliver Twist. B) Rufus Griswold. 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