This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Ransom Of Red Chief – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Ransom Of Red Chief Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who tells the story? A) Narrator. B) Character. C) Author. D) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrator. 2. The action of providing or supplying something for use. A) Proposition. B) Ransom. C) Provisions. D) Diatribe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Provisions. 3. This character is a good businessman who cares more for money than people A) Red Chief. B) Ebenezer Dorset. C) Bill Driscoll. D) Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ebenezer Dorset. 4. Which word means without purpose? A) Prominent. B) Surreptitiously. C) Stealthy. D) Aimlessly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aimlessly. 5. How far apart are the three trees on the road to poplar cove? A) About 50 yards apart. B) About 100 yards apart. C) About 200 yards apart. D) About 150 yards apart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) About 100 yards apart. 6. What does the following quote/figurative language mean? "He put up a fight like a welter weight cinnamon bear." A) He was a very sweet but heavy boy. B) He tried to fight, but did not know how to fight. C) He put up a very good fight and did not go willingly. D) He just gave up and did not do anything. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He put up a very good fight and did not go willingly. 7. What is the definition of palatable? A) In a sneaky way; secretly. B) To work together on a project. C) Able to be eaten; acceptable taste. D) To act according to a command or request. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Able to be eaten; acceptable taste. 8. Why were the kidnappers desperate at the beginning of the story? A) They needed money. B) They wanted to get rid of Red Chief. C) They were desperate to return the wagon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They needed money. 9. The reader knows something a character doesn't know. A) Situational. B) Dramatic. C) Verbal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic. 10. How many characters were there in the story? A) 5. B) 4. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 11. What is the meaning of the root dis-? A) Dislike. B) Before. C) Away. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Away. 12. Definition:involving or employing extreme measures in an attempt to escape defeat or frustration A) Ferocious. B) Desperate. C) Imp. D) Terrorized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desperate. 13. True or False:Texas is within the vicinity of The Summit School. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 14. Not harmful; non-injurious A) Christened. B) Square. C) Undeleterious. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Undeleterious. 15. What event causes Bill to be so afraid of "Red Chief" that he "sleeps with one eye open?" A) "Red Chief" slings a rock and hits him in the ear. B) "Red Chief" puts a red hot potato down his back. C) "Red Chief" tries to scalp him. D) "Red Chief" rides Bill like a horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Red Chief" tries to scalp him. 16. Why was the title name like that? A) Because the kid was an Indian. B) Because the kid called himself Red Chief. C) Because they wanted a ransom from Red Chief who happened to be Ebenezer Dorset. D) Because it told the readers there was a correlation between the ransom and the kid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because it told the readers there was a correlation between the ransom and the kid. 17. Which of the following is a definition for the word (ransom) A) To work together on a project. B) Providing or supplying of something, especially of food or other necessities. C) A sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a captive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a captive. 18. Who was holding Bill down with a knife at one point? A) Red Chief. B) Ebenezer Dorsett. C) The narrator. D) Old Hank. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Chief. 19. Johnny was an obedient child. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Meaning of ineffable A) Long-term. B) Beyond description. C) Cooked. D) Traitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beyond description. 21. In 1910, there were only 500, 000 cars in use in the United States. What percent of US households have at least one car today? A) 89.7%. B) 91.3%. C) 98.8%. D) 97.2%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 91.3%. 22. How much money do Bill and Sam make off the ransom? A) $ 1500. B) $ 2000. C) $ -250. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $ -250. 23. After sending the ransom letter to Ebenezer asking for 1, 500, what did he reply? A) He asked them to pay him $ 250 to take his boy back. B) He was going to send the $ 1, 500 right away. C) He threatens to call the police if they didn't return the kid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He asked them to pay him $ 250 to take his boy back. 24. How much ransom money were the kidnappers asking for? A) $ 1000. B) $ 2000. C) $ 200. D) $ 1, 000, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $ 2000. 25. Sam and Bill decided to ..... in kidnapping the boy. A) Collaborate. B) Proposition. C) Pervade. D) Ransom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collaborate. 26. "And as dark as it was, and as fat as Bill was, and as good a runner as I am, he was a good mile and a half out of Summit before I could catch up with him." This is in which part of the story A) The exposition (the beginning). B) The Climax of the story. C) The resolution (the end of the story). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The resolution (the end of the story). 27. Part A:Which sentence best expresses one theme of Ransom of Red Chief A) Greed can lead to tragedy. B) Friends are always there for each other. C) Love is stronger than any bond. D) Don't underestimate the cleverness of kids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Don't underestimate the cleverness of kids. 28. What was the average price of a home in the US in 1910? A) $ 97, 000. B) $ 10, 000. C) $ 2, 500. D) $ 37, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $ 2, 500. 29. The kidnapper who reconnoiters the town to see what kinds of things the townspeople are doing to find the boy A) Ebenezer Dorset. B) Bill Driscoll. C) Red Chief. D) Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sam. 30. Burned a wound in order to stop bleeding or to promote healing. A) Diatribe. B) Courier. C) Cauterized. D) Prominent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cauterized. 31. What character traits best describe Red Chief A) Kind. B) Optimistic. C) Considerate. D) Quick-witted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quick-witted. 32. All of the following are adjectives EXCEPT A) Lackadaisical. B) Sylvan. C) Contiguous. D) Incontinently. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Incontinently. 33. What word best describes a character trait of the antagonist (Johnny) in the story? A) Funny. B) Serious. C) Confident. D) Mischievous (misbehaved). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mischievous (misbehaved). 34. The kidnapper who wants to lower the amount of money in the ransom A) Sam. B) Red Chief. C) Bill Driscoll. D) Ebenezer Dorset. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bill Driscoll. 35. Which word means a payment demanded for the release of a person? A) Collaborate. B) Ransom. C) Proposition. D) Diatribe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ransom. 36. The part where you find a quote and copy it word for word from the text using quotation marks or put the quote in your own words mentioning that the author states something A) Explain. B) Cite. C) Summarize. D) Answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cite. 37. Sam says he "should have been abstracting fifteen hundred dollars from the box ..... " Which of the following definitions of abstract matches the use of the word in the sentence above? A) Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. B) Consider (something) theoretically or separately from something else. C) Extract or remove (something). D) A summary of the contents of a book, article, or formal speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extract or remove (something). 38. Necessary supplies, especially food A) Surreptitiously. B) Provisions. C) Peremptory. D) Ransom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Provisions. 39. Where did the narrator go to check the reaction to the kidnapping? A) Lone Tree. B) Western Illinois. C) Summit. D) Poplar Cove. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poplar Cove. 40. What is the average-hourly wage in the US in 2022? A) $ 31.25. B) $ 19.90. C) $ 27.06. D) $ 15.25. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $ 27.06. 41. The kidnappers were not expecting to have their request for a ..... rejected. A) Ransom. B) Surreptitiously. C) Proposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ransom. 42. What does ac-mean? A) Without; not. B) Between or among. C) Apart; away. D) To; toward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To; toward. 43. To act according to a command or request A) Diatribe. B) Commend. C) Comply. D) Impudent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comply. 44. What were the names of the two men? A) Sam and Bill. B) Sam and Ebenezer. C) Ebenezer and Bill. D) Bill and Dorset. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sam and Bill. 45. The men could not make Red Chief ..... with any of Bill's requests. A) Comply. B) Ransom. C) Collaborate. D) Palatable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comply. 46. What part of speech is "humiliate?" A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Verb. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb. 47. What does WWTW stand fr A) Word Within the Word. B) Wall Within the Wall. C) Wizard Within the Wizard. D) Willy Wonka the Wizard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Word Within the Word. 48. Which of the following is an example of irony? A) Red Chief made Bill his captive. B) Sam said he needed to sit up to rest his shoulder. C) Sam wrote a letter to Ebenezer Dorset. D) Bill and Sam came up with a plan to kidnap Red Chief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Chief made Bill his captive. 49. Which word means associated with, in, or near a wooded area? A) Renegade. B) Welterweight. C) Sylvan. D) Diatribe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sylvan. 50. Present as suitable for approval or acceptance; recommend. A) Diatribe. B) Comply. C) Ransom. D) Commend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commend. 51. What are some of the bad things Johnny does to Sam? A) Johnny does't do anything to Sam, it is Bill who he hits. B) He hits Sam with a rock. C) He rides Sam like a horse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Johnny does't do anything to Sam, it is Bill who he hits. 52. An example of situational irony in O. Henry's story "Ransom of Red Chief" is that the kidnappers ..... A) Choose a child of a prominent citizen for their crime. B) Actually pay more money to the child's parent to return the kidnapped victim. C) Are named Sam and Bill. D) Do not choose a very good location to exchange the ransom money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Actually pay more money to the child's parent to return the kidnapped victim. 53. Bill and Sam agree to return Red Chief, and they trick him into going home by promising him presents from his father. A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Falling action. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Falling action. 54. Theme means ..... A) The title of a piece of literature. B) The topic of a piece of literature. C) The overall message of a piece of literature. D) The feeling of a piece of literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The overall message of a piece of literature. 55. (v.) to speak highly of; to praise A) Collaborate. B) Proposition. C) Comply. D) Commend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commend. 56. A company or employee of a company that transports commercial packages and documents. A) Comply. B) Imp. C) Palatable. D) Courier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Courier. 57. Short Story, "The Ransom of Red Chief"How did Bill and Sam address themselves to Dorset in their letter? A) Bill and Sam. B) Two desperate men. C) Very Respectfully. D) None above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two desperate men. 58. In the movie, "Toy Story", human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move but the audience is. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 59. Gave in; consented; agreed A) Sleepy. B) Acceded. C) Diatribe. D) Peremptory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acceded. 60. Which word means to work together on a project? A) Pervade. B) Comply. C) Collaborate. D) Proposition. 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