Quiz  /  Poe’s Scary Stories Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which “monstrous” creature consumes puppets and mimes representing humankind in one Poe poem?

  • penguin
  • worm
  • horse
  • raven

  • 2. 
    Which animal does the soul of a nobleman enter after being murdered by a rival in Poe’s short story “Metzengerstein”?

  • penguin
  • worm
  • horse
  • raven

  • 3. 
    Which animal does a paranoid man in Poe’s short story “The Sphinx” mistake for a giant version of itself?

  • raven
  • worm
  • praying mantis
  • moth

  • 4. 
    Who committed the murders at the Rue Morgue in Poe’s “The Murders at Rue Morgue”?

  • the mortician
  • the frog
  • the orangutan
  • the jester

  • 5. 
    Which of Poe’s published works is considered to have influenced Melville’s Moby Dick?

  • “The Murder at Rue Morgue”
  • “The Raven”
  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
  • Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

  • 6. 
    What medieval romance starts coming to life in “The Fall of the House of Usher”?

  • “Mad Trist”
  • Beowulf
  • “The Song of Roland”
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  • 7. 
    In “The Raven,” what single word does the titular bird speak?

  • “Before”
  • “Amore”
  • “Nevermore”
  • “Lenore”

  • 8. 
    What is the name of the sailing ship that rescues the narrator in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket?

  • The Albatross
  • The Raven
  • The Pequod
  • The Penguin
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