This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Tell me why thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" This lines makes an allusion (reference) to the Greek God of ..... A) War. B) Heaven. C) The underworld. D) The night. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The underworld. 2. Short and to the point A) Devise. B) Macabre. C) Generate. D) Succinctly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Succinctly. 3. In the paragraph, the narrator talks about a perception of time: A) Fleeting. B) Eternal. C) Ephemeral. D) Durable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ephemeral. 4. Annabel Lee:Where does the narrator sleep every night? A) In the wilderness. B) By her tomb. C) In the sea. D) In his grave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By her tomb. 5. The Tell-Tale Heart:What does the heartbeat symbolize throughout the short story? A) The man's acute hearing. B) The man's erratic behavior. C) The old man's heartbeat. D) The man's guilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The man's guilt. 6. The Raven:As the Raven lands on the bust, what symbolism does it reveal to the reader? A) Illogical rules over logical. B) Joy rules over grief. C) Logical rules over illogical. D) Hope rules over loss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Illogical rules over logical. 7. The narrator's feelings for Annabel Lee can best be described as A) Immature. B) Eternal. C) Fleeting. D) Lessening. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eternal. 8. The tale The oval portrait tells the story A) Of a museum haunted by ghosts. B) Of a cursed camera. C) Of successful romantic love. D) A girl posing for a painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A girl posing for a painting. 9. What did the animal have in common with Pluto? A) It was all black. B) It was very big. C) It was very small. D) It only had one eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It only had one eye. 10. Express in speech A) Utter. B) Hesitate. C) Tempest. D) Engage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Utter. 11. The protagonist feels a certain degree of guilt and is impulsive. In which of the two texts is it: A) The black cat. B) Tell tale heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The black cat. 12. Annabel Lee:In this poem, who is jealous of the narrator and Annabel Lee's love? A) Seraphs (angels). B) Greek gods. C) The king. D) Her family. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seraphs (angels). 13. Who became Edgar Allan Poe's guardian? A) Elizabeth Poe. B) David Poe. C) John Allen. D) Maria Clem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Allen. 14. In which of the stories does indirect narration predominate? A) The Tell-Tale Heart. B) William Wilson. C) The Fall of the House of Usher. D) The stolen letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The stolen letter. 15. EDGAR ALLAN POE was a ..... / A) Mechanic. B) Biologist. C) This person does not exist. D) Writer. E) Baker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writer. 16. Poe's death was seen as odd for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) There is little evidence at all. B) He was wearing someone else's clothes. C) He was found on the streets of Baltimore. D) He had gotten a tattoo of a lightning bolt on his forehead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He had gotten a tattoo of a lightning bolt on his forehead. 17. What made you change your character and your treatment of others? A) Heartbreak and superstitions. B) Unemployment and its immaturity. C) Alcoholism and its psychological problems. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alcoholism and its psychological problems. 18. Quality of wisdom; intelligence A) Sagacity. B) Macabre. C) Perish. D) Vex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sagacity. 19. "Of my darling-my darling-my life and my bride, in the sepulcher there by the sea" A) The Tell-Tale Heart. B) Annabel Lee. C) The Raven. D) The Cask of Amontillado. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Annabel Lee. 20. Where did the narrator hide his wife's body? A) In the basement. B) In the attic. C) In the back garden. D) Under the kitchen floor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the basement. 21. The author uses personification in stanza 4 to: A) Minimize the way Annabel Lee died. B) Attribute the death of Annabel Lee to forces beyond his control. C) Gain sympathy from the reader about how Annabel Lee died. D) Portray the terrible way in which Annabel Lee died. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Attribute the death of Annabel Lee to forces beyond his control. 22. What did the portrait in the room depict? A) A landscape. B) A still life. C) A young girl. D) A self-portrait. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A young girl. 23. Under what pseudonym did Poe initially write? A) Eiros. B) Berenice. C) Bostonian. D) Eleonora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bostonian. 24. Romanticism, as a literary movement, emerged in ..... A) Spain. B) Germany. C) France. D) Italia. E) Inglaterra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Germany. 25. What happened to the character's character? A) Irritable and indifferent to feelings. B) Distracted, sensitive and melancholic. C) Violent only with his wife. D) Happy and peaceful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irritable and indifferent to feelings. 26. Why did Poe blame his financial woes on John Allan? A) Allan did not provide him with enough money to cover his student expenses. B) Allan refused to adopt him. C) Allan wasted his money on gambling and drinking. D) Allan stole his inheritance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allan did not provide him with enough money to cover his student expenses. 27. Why do you think John Astin sees Edgar Allan Poe's ghost when he is preparing for a show? A) He's losing his mind. B) He actually sees a ghost. C) He is strongly inspired by Poe. D) He's not; he's lying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is strongly inspired by Poe. 28. How did Poe's mom die? A) Tuberculosis. B) Malaria. C) The Black Plague. D) The Scarlet Fever. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tuberculosis. 29. How did the old man die? A) Dismembered by the protagonist. B) Choked with a mattress by the protagonist. C) From a heart attack. D) Panicked when hearing the noises in the darkness of the room. E) The manner of his death is unknown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Choked with a mattress by the protagonist. 30. Where did the agents find the second cat? A) In the roof. B) In the fireplace. C) In the wife's head. D) In a corner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the wife's head. 31. Who were Edgar Allan Poe's biological parents? A) John and Francine. B) David and Eliza. C) Virginia and Mark. D) Maria and Vincent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) David and Eliza. 32. Where was the chateau located? A) By the sea. B) In the mountains. C) In the forest. D) In the city. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the mountains. 33. The recipe calls for ..... ingredients like flour, sugar, and eggs. A) Sour. B) Stir. C) Basic. D) Elementary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basic. 34. Edgar Allan Poe, name was really A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Edgar Allan Perry. C) Edgar Allan Peg. D) Edgar Allan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe. 35. What was it that irritated the protagonist? A) Not having the wealth of the old man. B) The sound of the old man's footsteps. C) The old man's voice. D) The old man's eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The old man's eye. 36. What genre can be used to describe Edgar Allan Poe's work? A) Transcendentalism. B) Gothic Romanticism. C) Naturalism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gothic Romanticism. 37. What happens when the author opens the door? A) The raven flies in. B) He screams. C) He only sees darkness. D) He sees Lenore standing outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The raven flies in. 38. "The Raven" is a A) Narrative Poem. B) Sonnet. C) Prologue. D) Lyric Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative Poem. 39. Bonus question:how long is English class? A) 70 minutes. B) 63 minutes. C) 39.5 minutes. D) It never ends, really. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 70 minutes. 40. What happens to Mr. Valdemar during the experiment? A) He wakes up and feels refreshed. B) He communicates with the narrator through telepathy. C) He dies and his body is preserved in a state of suspension. D) He experiences vivid dreams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He dies and his body is preserved in a state of suspension. 41. In "The Raven, ", the speaker can best be described as a- A) Lonely, elderly man longing for visitors. B) Magician conjuring up evil spirits. C) Poet seeking inspiration for a new work. D) Melancholy person trying to forget a great tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Melancholy person trying to forget a great tragedy. 42. From the poem, what can the reader conclude about the narrator? A) He misses, Annabel Lee, but has moved on from her death. B) His love for Annabel Lee has started to fade. C) He is still greatly in love with Annabel Lee even after her death. D) He wishes that he were in heaven with Annabel Lee and the seraphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is still greatly in love with Annabel Lee even after her death. 43. How many conjugated verbs are there in this fragment: "Once again I sank into excess and very soon drowned the memories of what happened in wine" ? A) 3. B) 2. C) 1. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 44. Poe's nickname as an editor A) The Raven. B) The Tomahawk. C) Grip. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tomahawk. 45. "She is wasting away to skin and bones ..... she can hardly move ..... she has ..... " A) Scythe. B) Seizures. C) Bizarre. D) Sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seizures. 46. Where did you first find Ligeia? A) In a modern city in England. B) In a ruined city on the Rhine. C) In an abbey with great towers. D) En Inglaterra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a ruined city on the Rhine. 47. What did Legrand discover when they were returning home? A) That he was going crazy. B) That Jupiter wanted to deceive them. C) That the legend was a lie. D) That they had dug in the wrong place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That they had dug in the wrong place. 48. In "The Raven, " what was the narrator doing in the first two stanzas? A) Trying and failing to sleep. B) Thinking about Lenore. C) Reading books. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reading books. 49. Being of striking appropriateness; likely A) Ominous. B) Apt. C) Ungainly. D) Entreat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apt. 50. What is a heretic? A) Who loves food and worships an idol. B) Who professes a religion, practices its precepts and lives and acts in accordance with it. C) Person who denies any of the dogmas established in a religion. D) That doubts or distrusts the truth, effectiveness or possibilities of something, especially commonly accepted beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person who denies any of the dogmas established in a religion. 51. Punishment inflicted as vengeance for a wrong/criminal act A) Retribution. B) Harken. C) Seraph. D) Concealment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Retribution. 52. How old was Poe when his biological (birth) parents died? A) 10-years-old. B) 40-years-old. C) 24-years-old. D) 3-years-old. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3-years-old. 53. According to accounts Usher was: A) A balcony. B) A well. C) A man. D) The alley of a house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A man. 54. Sovereignty, control. A) Dominion. B) Ascertain. C) Pendulum. D) Tumultuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dominion. 55. Imagine Jackson, Mia, and Hannah are reading a poem in their literature class. They come across the word 'fiend' in the seventh stanza. Hannah thinks it means 'friend', but Mia disagrees. What does the word 'fiend' actually mean? A) Doctor. B) Cruel or wicked person. C) Friend. D) Professor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cruel or wicked person. 56. The animal sanctuary was a ..... for rescued animals in need of care and attention. A) Haven. B) Mourn. C) Imaginative. D) Bruise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haven. 57. What did the protagonist feel when he went down the well? A) Terror and fear in your soul. B) I was oppressed and suffocated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I was oppressed and suffocated. 58. What is the best meaning of the word "spring" in line 4? A) A Diet Coke. B) A giant airplane. C) A source. D) A metal thing that causes things to spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A source. 59. As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor, " I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- A) Symbolism. B) Hyperbole. C) Anaphora. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 60. What structure is poetry written in? A) Sentences & paragraphs. B) Sentences & stanzas. C) Lines and paragraphs. D) Lines and stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines and stanzas. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesEdgar Allan Poe Quiz 1Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 2Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 3Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 4Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 6Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 7Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 8Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books