This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe > Edgar Allan Poe – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which story character is characterized by being very superstitious? A) William Legrand. B) El detective Dupin. C) Roderick Usher. D) Prince Prospero. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roderick Usher. 2. What activity does the narrator NOT mention doing with Roderick? A) Playing music. B) Horse riding. C) Reading. D) Painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horse riding. 3. Who saves the protagonist's life? A) The soldiers. B) The monks. C) General Lasalle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) General Lasalle. 4. What violent action does the narrator commit against his first cat, Pluto? A) He leaves him in the street. B) Drowns him in a river. C) He stabs him with a knife. D) He hangs it from a tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He hangs it from a tree. 5. The tarn swallowed up the house. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 6. DID THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH WRITE? A) JUAN MONTALVO. B) SHAKESPEARE. C) EDGAR ALLAN POE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) EDGAR ALLAN POE. 7. "Of poets, by poets-as the name is a poet's too" means ..... A) He was in love with a poet. B) He is a poet. C) He is in love with all poets. D) He loves himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was in love with a poet. 8. What is the purpose of the glass door in room No. 13? A) To allow visitors to see the room furnished as a student room from the 19th century. B) To provide access to a recording about Poe's time at U.Va. C) To showcase authentic furniture from Poe's time. D) To create a shrine to Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To allow visitors to see the room furnished as a student room from the 19th century. 9. Despite being the master of horror, Poe preferred to avoid ghost stories. A) TRUE. B) Falso. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falso. 10. At the beginning, what feeling did you share with your wife? A) His love for junk food. B) His love for animals. C) His love for human beings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His love for animals. 11. The man killed the cat guided by ..... A) The demon. B) The instinct to kill. C) The spirit of perversity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The spirit of perversity. 12. The well and the pendulum:why was the protagonist taken to prison? A) Because he had stolen. B) By the Spanish inquisition. C) For the second world war. D) Because I had nowhere to sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By the Spanish inquisition. 13. What word does the narrator call the raven in anger in stanza 5? A) Wretch. B) God. C) Liar. D) Lenore. E) Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lenore. 14. In 1835, Edgar Allan Poe married the A) His first. B) Your neighbor. C) Your colleague. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His first. 15. How did the main character's wife die? A) With an ax blow. B) From a bullet. C) Heart attack. D) Natural death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With an ax blow. 16. What does the word 'mercurial' mean? A) Lacking spontaneity; not natural. B) Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind. C) Spread or diffuse through. D) A break or intermission in the occurrence of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind. 17. What did the painter's wife think of his art? A) She was indifferent. B) She was jealous. C) She loved it. D) She hated it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was jealous. 18. The country at that time had economic growth ..... A) Enlarged. B) Null. C) Without changes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enlarged. 19. Why was the lamplight gloating? A) The raven would never leave. B) The room was becoming dark. C) Lenore would never sit in the chair again. D) The narrator would be lonely forever. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lenore would never sit in the chair again. 20. What was the name of the essay Poe wrote about "The Raven" ? A) "A New Day". B) "The Critical Process". C) "The Philosophy of Composition". D) "In the Mind of a Madman". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Philosophy of Composition". 21. The chef worked in a ..... to prepare the meal for the large dinner party. A) Fanciful. B) Frenzy. C) Wound. D) Refuge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frenzy. 22. "It was a low, dull, quick sound-much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." A) The Cask of Amontillado. B) The Raven. C) Annabel Lee. D) The Tell-Tale Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Tell-Tale Heart. 23. What is the theme of 'The Raven' by Poe? A) Love and grief. B) Fear and horror. C) Satire and social trends. D) Adventure and exploration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love and grief. 24. What picture could the narrator see? A) A picture of Death. B) A picture of his wife. C) A picture of Time. D) A picture of the jailor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A picture of Time. 25. The teacher's tone turned ..... when the students continued to talk during the class. A) Stir. B) Basic. C) Wound. D) Sour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sour. 26. Misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods A) Implore. B) Enchanted. C) Beguiling. D) Stern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beguiling. 27. The side bar entitled The Woes of Poe are included most likely to ..... A) Suggest that Poe faced many hardships in his life. B) Encourage the reader to buy a book of poems by Poe. C) Show that Poe's childhood was filled with despair. D) Suggest that Poe overcame all of the obstacles in his life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suggest that Poe faced many hardships in his life. 28. "Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!-here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart!" A) The Raven. B) Annabel Lee. C) The Tell-Tale Heart. D) The Cask of Amontillado. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Tell-Tale Heart. 29. Two words that have the same ending sound are called ..... A) Rhythm words. B) Stanza words. C) Rhyming words. D) Repetitive words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming words. 30. Who is the author of the black cat? A) Edgar Allan Poem. B) Edgar Antonio Poe. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Edgar Allan Prado. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edgar Allan Poe. 31. IS THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH THE ..... ? A) LIFE. B) DEATH. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DEATH. 32. What does the word nevermore represent in "The Raven?" A) Paradise. B) A refrain. C) Alliteration. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A refrain. 33. What term matches the definition? A ..... act done with full awareness of the likely consequences A) Impulsive. B) Calculated. C) Defense. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calculated. 34. " ..... we must have put my sister in her ..... alive ..... " A) Tomb. B) Pit. C) Erratically. D) Seizures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tomb. 35. Who adopted Poe after his mother died? A) The Poe family. B) The Allan family. C) The Clemm family. D) No one; he lived on his own. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Allan family. 36. The Raven:As the Raven enters the room, it lands on the bust of what figure? A) Plutonian. B) Hades. C) Pallas Athena. D) Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pallas Athena. 37. How is the narrator caught? A) He confeses. B) He laughs and the cops know. C) The cat makes noise in the wall. D) He doesn't. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cat makes noise in the wall. 38. Consume all of one's attention or time A) Mutter. B) Apt. C) Scarce. D) Engage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Engage. 39. What is one of the defining characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe's image? A) A high forehead. B) Blonde hair. C) Bright blue eyes. D) Rosy complexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A high forehead. 40. How should this sentence be correctly punctuated? "Let's take a cross country trip, " suggested Braxton. A) "Let's take a cross country trip", suggested Braxton. B) Correct as it is. C) "Let's take a cross country trip." suggested Braxton. D) Let's take a cross country trip, "suggested Braxton.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correct as it is. 41. When does the murder occur? A) On April Fool's Day. B) En Halloween. C) A Tuesday the 13th. D) On the seventh day of the week. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On the seventh day of the week. 42. Which of the following answer choices BEST describes the the author's purpose for writing this article? A) The author wrote this article to persuade the audience that Poe is one of the best writers of all time. B) The author wrote this article to entertain the audience and show sad Edgar Allan Poe's life was. C) The author wrote this article to inform the audience about Edgar Allan Poe's life, and how his early life shaped his writing career. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The author wrote this article to inform the audience about Edgar Allan Poe's life, and how his early life shaped his writing career. 43. What did Poe's biological parents do? A) Writers. B) Actores. C) Merchants. D) Profesores. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Actores. 44. What initial reaction does the speaker have to the bird in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" ? A) He's amused. B) He's relieved. C) He's annoyed. D) He's scared. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He's amused. 45. Type of narrator the story has A) Homodiegetic-Protagonist. B) Homodiegetic-Witness. C) Omniscient. D) Heterodiegetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homodiegetic-Protagonist. 46. Where was Edgar Allan Poe found dead? A) In a park in Boston. B) In his home in New York. C) Outside of a bar in Baltimore. D) On a street in Richmond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outside of a bar in Baltimore. 47. Did he drop out of college? A) No he stayed full time. B) Yes at his early years of college. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes at his early years of college. 48. "Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust, and door ..... "Identify the point of view of the line above. A) 3rd person objective. B) 3rd person limited. C) 1st person. D) 2nd person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1st person. 49. (of the moon) to have a smaller part of its surface visible A) Opulent. B) Waned. C) Perplex. D) Waxed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Waned. 50. The artist ..... ed the damage to her masterpiece caused by the fire A) Stir. B) Mourn. C) Grieve. D) Tart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mourn. 51. Read lines 4 and 5 from "Eldorado." The sensory language in these lines highlights the character's- A) Romanticism. B) Determination. C) Optimism. D) Idealism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Optimism. 52. "Perfumed from an unseen censer swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor." A) Annabel Lee. B) The Tell-Tale Heart. C) The Raven. D) The Cask of Amontillado. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Raven. 53. What did Edgar Allan Poe set on fire to stay warm? A) His clothes. B) His books. C) His house. D) His furniture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His furniture. 54. What was the shape of the frame of the portrait? A) Round. B) Oval. C) Rectangular. D) Square. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oval. 55. What was the name of Edgar Allan Poe's first book of poetry? A) Tamerlane and Other Poems. B) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. C) The Conchologist's First Book. D) Poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tamerlane and Other Poems. 56. Which word means "a small amount?" A) Paltry. B) Perverseness. C) Primitive. D) Pertinacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paltry. 57. "I scarcely have had time for cares" A) ED SHEERAN. B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) EDGAR ALLAN POE. 58. What was the name of the first cat? A) Pluto. B) Jupiter. C) Devil. D) Black shadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pluto. 59. The first brutal act that the man committed against the cat was: A) Kill him with an ax. B) Burn it down. C) Take out an eye. D) Ahorcarlo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Take out an eye. 60. What is the name of the cat in this short story? A) Nameless. B) Pluton. C) Coal. D) Gaston. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pluton. ← 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 5Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 6Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 8Edgar Allan Poe Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books