This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Ransom Of Red Chief – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A man looked out of the window to see the storm intensify. He turned to his friend and said "Wonderful weather we're having!" A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 2. Pleasant or acceptable to the taste A) Palatable. B) Renegade. C) Surreptitiously. D) Proclivities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Palatable. 3. Why didn't the boy try to escape from Bill and Sam? A) He was too far from home. B) He was afreaid they would catch him. C) He did not kjnow where he was. D) He was having too much fun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was having too much fun. 4. Bill and Sam kidnap a young boy who goes by the name of Red Chief. A) Character vs. character. B) Character vs. nature. C) Character vs. society. D) Character vs. self. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Character vs. character. 5. When is the climax of the story? A) When Johnny sneaks up behind Bill and Bill doesn't know it. B) When they receive the reply from Dorset asking for money. C) When Johnny throws a piec of brick at Bill. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When they receive the reply from Dorset asking for money. 6. An act of attacking or plundering A) Peremptory. B) Depred. C) Diatribe. D) Undeleterious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Depred. 7. The man from the west, his egotism enlarged by success, was beginning to outline the history of his career. What does the word 'egotism' mean? A) At the same time. B) At a fixed time. C) Talk about oneself tooo much. D) Miserably. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talk about oneself tooo much. 8. Short Story, "The Elevator"What information do we learn in the story's exposition? A) Martin's father works from home. B) Martin has a fear of elevators. C) The identity of Terry Ullman. D) The description of Martin, the elevator, and the building. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The description of Martin, the elevator, and the building. 9. The awful smell from the sewage plant seemed to ..... throughout our house ..... A) Commend. B) Comply. C) Pervade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pervade. 10. To praise or express approval A) Commend. B) Collaborate. C) Provisions. D) Comply. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commend. 11. What was the name of the victim chosen by the men? A) Johnny. B) Maypole. C) Bill Driscoll. D) Ebenezer Dorset. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Johnny. 12. This occurs when the reader knows what is going to happen, but the character in a story does not. A) Verbal irony. B) Context clue. C) Allusion. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dramatic irony. 13. How much money did Sam and Bill have at the beginning of the story? A) $ 1000.00. B) $ 250.00. C) $ 600.00. D) $ 2000.00. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $ 600.00. 14. What does comply mean? A) To work together. B) To obey. C) To be disrespectful. D) I dont know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To obey. 15. While they are not "good" guys, Bill and Sam are the ..... of the story because they are the main characters. A) Protagonists. B) Antagonists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonists. 16. Which word means a boxer weighing between 140 and 147 pounds? A) Calliope. B) Welterweight. C) Provisions. D) Apparition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Welterweight. 17. Which of the following shows how the author uses situational irony to create humor when Bill asks not to be left alone with Red Chief? A) He's afraid Sam will never forgive him for bungling the kidnapping. B) He's afraid of getting caught even though no one is after him. C) He's afraid Ebenezer will ask him to adopt Red Chief. D) He's a grown man afraid of a little boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He's a grown man afraid of a little boy. 18. A good objective summary ..... A) Is a summary sentence of the text that covers the key details. B) Identifies the topic, has all the key words, and is a complete sentence. C) Focuses on the central idea of the text and only the details that support it. D) Uses direct quotes from the text in order to let the audience know what it was about. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Focuses on the central idea of the text and only the details that support it. 19. What is the resolution of the story? A) Bob gets arrested. B) Bob returns to the west. C) Bob tells Jimmy he hates him. D) Bob gets a note from Jimmy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bob gets a note from Jimmy. 20. The father of Red Chief A) Bill Driscoll. B) Red Chief. C) Ebenezer Dorset. D) Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ebenezer Dorset. 21. Which of the following is an ANTONYM of surreptitiously? A) Covertly. B) Openly. C) Unappetizing. D) Privately. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Openly. 22. Red Chief was so ..... , adults didn't like being around him. A) Diatribe. B) Impudent. C) Collaborate. D) Commended. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impudent. 23. What was Mr. Dorset's request? A) To lower the ransom to $ 1, 000. B) To allow him to wire the money to Illinois instead. C) To never bring his son back. D) For Bill and Sam to pay him $ 250 to take the boy off their hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) For Bill and Sam to pay him $ 250 to take the boy off their hands. 24. What is a ransom? A) An amount of money demanded for the release of a kidnapped person. B) An amount of money that kidnappers pay when caught. C) Money that is stolen from the bank. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An amount of money demanded for the release of a kidnapped person. 25. What does compel mean? A) Without or not; drive or urge. B) With; together; in association; (with intensive force) completely; drive. C) To; toward drive or urge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With; together; in association; (with intensive force) completely; drive. 26. In what country did haiku originate? A) Japan. B) India. C) USA. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Japan. 27. Diligent and hard-working A) Industriously. B) Palatable. C) Pervading. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Industriously. 28. A good businessman who cares more for money than people A) Ebenezer Dorset. B) Bill Driscoll. C) Sam. D) Red Chief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ebenezer Dorset. 29. Today the population of Las Vegas, Nevada is 634, 000. How many people lived in Las Vegas in 1910? A) 125, 000. B) 210, 000. C) 30. D) 7, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 30. 30. What is the setting of "The Ransom of Red Chief?" A) The town of Summit and a cave. B) The town of Della Gloria and a field. C) The coast of Caracas. D) The winding roads of Wisconsin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The town of Summit and a cave. 31. Bill wants to get the ransom money, but he is not sure how long he can stand to be around Red Chief. A) Character vs. society. B) Character vs. self. C) Character vs. nature. D) Character vs. character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character vs. self. 32. Secretly or in a sneaky way A) Pervade. B) Collaborate. C) Surreptitiously. D) Palatable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surreptitiously. 33. Which word means a suggested plan? A) Proposition. B) Pervade. C) Impudent. D) Comply. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proposition. 34. What is the definition of commend? A) To speak highly of; to praise. B) A suggested plan. C) Able to be eaten; acceptable taste. D) To act according to a command or request. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To speak highly of; to praise. 35. Which sentence used peremptory correctly? A) She is very peremptory. B) The prison guard spoke to the inmate in a peremptory tone. C) Those shoes are very peremptory. D) I have a peremptory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The prison guard spoke to the inmate in a peremptory tone. 36. What are the five elements of plot listed in the correct sequence? A) Resolution, climax, rising action, falling action, exposition. B) Characterization, conflict, climax, falling action, resolution. C) Indirect and direct characterization, plot, setting, sequence. D) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. 37. (v.) to work together on a project A) Pervade. B) Impudent. C) Collaborate. D) Comply. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collaborate. 38. Three flies notice an overturned honey pot. Two of the flies decide to land in the honey and start eating it. But the oldest fly stays back. The two flies tease the older fly, but then get stuck in the honey. What is the theme of this story? A) Overeating leads to illness. B) Always send a tester. C) Insects value food over safety. D) Some prizes aren't worth it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Some prizes aren't worth it. 39. Which quotation from the text BEST supports the answer to question 3? A) "'I'm Old Hank, the Trapper, Red Chief's captive, and I'm to be scalped at daybreak. By Geronimo! that kid can kick hard." '. B) "'I like to camp out. You won't take me back home again, Snake-eye, will you?' 'Not right away, ' says I.". C) "'Sure, ' said I. 'A rowdy kid like that is just the kind that parents dote on." '. D) "'You must keep the boy amused and quiet till I return.'". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "'I'm Old Hank, the Trapper, Red Chief's captive, and I'm to be scalped at daybreak. By Geronimo! that kid can kick hard." '. 40. Payment demanded for release of a person or property A) Diatribe. B) Impudent. C) Ransom. D) Proposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ransom. 41. Why did Bill suggest lowering the ransom amount to $ 1, 500? A) He did not think Ebenezer Dorset had much money. B) He wanted to leave town as soon as possible. C) He came to enjoy the boy's company and wanted to help him. D) He did not think anyone would pay $ 2, 000 for the boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He did not think anyone would pay $ 2, 000 for the boy. 42. The reader knowing the little boy is standing behind Bill, but Bill thinking he was long gone. A) Situational. B) Dramatic. C) Verbal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic. 43. How much money did they need? A) $ 600. B) $ 2000. C) $ 1500. D) $ 250. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $ 2000. 44. Who was Bill's favorite Biblical character? A) Noah. B) Jesus. C) Moses. D) King Herod. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King Herod. 45. Who were the kidnappers? A) Bill and Sam. B) Johnny and Ebenezer. C) Bill Driscoll and Sam Dorset. D) Jhonny and Ebenezer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bill and Sam. 46. How much money did Bill and Sam finally ask for? A) 2, 000. B) 250. C) 1, 500. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1, 500. 47. What does the word peremptory most likely mean as used in the following sentence: "I thought it best to send a peremptory letter to old man Dorset that day demanding the ransom and dictating how it should be paid." A) Urgent. B) Letter with a map. C) Legal. D) Apology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urgent. 48. Who is Ebenezer Dorset? A) Sam's father. B) Red Chief's father. C) A kidnapper. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red Chief's father. 49. Where did Pecos Bill grow up? A) Alabama. B) Oklahoma. C) Texas. D) Mississippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Texas. 50. Who suffered the most in this story? A) Bill. B) Sam. C) Red Chief. D) Ebenezer Dorset. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bill. 51. Small mischievous devil or sprite; a mischievous child; usually used to describe someone's bad behavior. A) Courier. B) Pervade. C) Impudent. D) Imp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imp. 52. To speak highly of; to praise A) Commend. B) Comply. C) Impudent. D) Collaborate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commend. 53. What is the definition of "genre?" A) The type of literature you're reading. B) The narrator of a story. C) The author of a story. D) The study of genes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The type of literature you're reading. 54. What is the definition of an idiom? A) A combination of 2 opposites. B) A comparison using "like" or "as". C) A phrase that means something other than what it says. D) A comparison between 2 objects. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A phrase that means something other than what it says. 55. People who are described as "loners" tend to be ..... A) Moral. B) Industrious. C) Lackadaisical. D) Solitary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Solitary. 56. In the text, it says the boy "started up a howl like a calliope." What did it sound like? A) I low growl. B) Sniffling and crying. C) I high pitched noise. D) Sounded like an Indian noise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I high pitched noise. 57. Ending, or not open to, discussion, debate, or further action; dictatorial:expected to be obeyed; expressing urgency A) Apparition. B) Peremptory. C) Peasantry. D) Depred. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peremptory. 58. (n.) natural tendencies A) Proposition. B) Proclivities. C) Apparition. D) Diatribe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proclivities. 59. Which one is a synonym for "diatribe?" A) A large meal. B) Family. C) Anxious. D) Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Criticism. 60. What did Bill and Sam end up doing after reading the letter back from Mr. Dorset? A) Running away without returning the boy. B) Taking the boy back to Summit and paying Mr. Dorset $ 250. C) Sent another ransom note saying they did not agree to the deal. D) Told Mr. Dorset to have cash in the box by midnight. 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