Edgar Allan Poe Quiz

“The Pit and the Pendulum”

  1. Who were the masked figures at the beginning of the story?
  2. Angry citizensc. Priests
  3. Rabbisd. Gang Members
  4. At the beginning of the story, what was on the table?
  5. seven tall candlesc. one bloody knife
  6. one candled. a robe
  7. What did the narrator use in his attempt to measure the room?
  8. a dead ratc. a piece of bread
  9. a clump of haird. a piece of cloth
  10. Which of the events never happened?
  11. he faintedc. he was given salted meat
  12. he screamed in horrord. he was strapped to a table
  13. Who freed the narrator at the end of the story?
  14. a Generalc. a citizen
  15. a Priestd. a relative
  16. What surprising thing did the narrator discover when walking around?
  17. a dead bodyc. a well
  18. a blanketd. a key
  19. What was covering the walls?
  20. nothing, it was barec. nitre
  21. fearful skeletal imagesd. knives
  22. When the narrator awakes, what does he find next to him?
  23. a piec. a loaf and pitcher of water
  24. wined. water
  25. What was the shape of the pendulum?
  26. a squarec. a crescent
  27. an ovald. a rectangle
  28. What happened right after the author got free from the chains?
  29. he found a door and escapedc. the room was flooded
  30. nothingd. the walls started to close in on him

“The Black Cat”

  1. What is the cat’s name?
  2. Platoc. Zeus
  3. Plutod. Polyphemus
  4. The narrator has all of the following animals except:
  5. monkeyc. cat
  6. birdd. giraffe
  7. In the beginning of the story, the narrator is a nice man, and then he become a(n)
  8. drug addictc. lawyer
  9. alcoholicd. state trooper
  1. The first injury that becomes the cat is:
  2. He is hung from a treec. he is starved to death
  3. He has his tail cut offd. he has his eye cut out
  1. In a fit of jealousy, the narrator______his wife.
  2. Maimsc. hugs
  3. Killsd. beheads
  4. A “stream of consciousness” means that
  5. The author is telling the world what they think.
  6. The narrator gives us his inner-most thought.
  7. Everyone is awake at the same time.
  8. The narrator is out in nature.
  9. The narrator tells on himself in The Black Cat by:
  10. Pulling the mortar from the wall.
  11. Showing the men to the basement.
  12. Knocking on the wall of the basement.
  13. Talking in his sleep.
  14. The narrator is telling this story from
  15. An insane asylumc. his jail cell
  16. His death bedd. his grave
  17. Both of these stories are written in
  18. First person point of view
  19. Third person limited
  20. Third person omniscient
  21. Second person
  22. The black cat could be a symbol of
  23. alcoholismc. truth
  24. helld. all of these

Vocabulary: (Let’s see how well you do….)

scimitaraghast locutioninquisitionaperture

conspicuoussagaciousatrocityperversenessapparition

  1. The school shooting in Oregon was an ______because ten people died.
  1. The Spanish ______was a time of great trials where hundreds of people were put on trial for heresy
  1. The people were ______when they saw the eye socket of the cat because they had never seen such cruelty.
  1. There is a ______that cannot be explained when someone kills another human being.
  1. The most ______person I ever met was a Judge of Superior Court because he could always tell when someone was lying by looking in their eyes.
  1. We have a ______hanging in our living room from a mission trip to China.
  1. In The Black Cat there was an ______of the gallows on the wall behind the bed.
  1. The ______in the cell floor was not small, and it did not allow for the narrator to jump across it due to its sheer depth.
  1. In this class, there will be ______used that you might not have heard before because you are not used to speaking properly.
  1. The new house is ______from the road with its bright red roof and green paint; it almost looks like a Christmas present.