Quiz  /  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which of the following Poe stories begins with the words: “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could…”?

  • “The Black Cat”
  • “The Cask of Amontillado”
  • “The Gold Bug”
  • “The Raven”

  • 2. 
    What Estonian composer used a style known as tintinnabulation, a word popularized in Poe's "The Bells"?

  • Frank Zappa
  • Shulamith Ran
  • Arvo Pärt
  • Pauline Oliveros

  • 3. 
    Whose beauty is “like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore”?

  • Lenore
  • Eleonora
  • Helen
  • Annabel Lee

  • 4. 
    What is the name of the woman who has been buried not quite dead in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”?

  • Madeline Usher
  • Grace Poole
  • Catherine Earnshaw
  • Anne Catherick

  • 5. 
    In “The Masque of the Red Death,” a figure appears at a ball dressed as the Red Death. What actual disease does this refer to?

  • Consumption
  • None
  • Bubonic plague
  • Septicemic plague

  • 6. 
    Which of the following stories is the first to feature Poe’s amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin?

  • “A Study in Scarlet”
  • “Murders in the Rue Morgue”
  • “The Cask of Amontillado”
  • “The Purloined Letter”

  • 7. 
    Which of Poe’s poetic loves was chilled and killed by a wind that came out of a cloud sent by envious angels?

  • Annabel Lee
  • Lenore
  • Ulalume
  • Eleonora

  • 8. 
    Which of the following concerns a “rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore”?

  • “The Raven”
  • “The Bells”
  • “The Fall of the House of Usher”
  • “The Tell-Tale Heart”

  • 9. 
    What device does the phrase “the silken, sad, uncertain rustling” show?

  • Metaphor
  • Metonomy
  • Alliteration
  • Hyperbole

  • 10. 
    In which story does the narrator lose his cool and confess to the police that he has just killed an old man?

  • “The Tell-Tale Heart”
  • “The Purloined Letter”
  • “The Fall of the House of Usher”
  • “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
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