Online Test on E.A. Poe's Short Stories

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1. "True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am..." Which of Poe's story begins with this line?

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The Tale -Tell Heart

The Gold Bug

The Cask of Amontilado

The Fall of the House of Usher

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2. Which organ of the body of the old man troubled the narrator a lot?

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nose

hand

eye

ear

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3. How is the eye of the old man described by the narrator?

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red and yellow

a pale blue eye

white like snow

cold and pale

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4. Which animal the eye of the old man is compared with?

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fox

owl

vulture

snake

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5. How did the narrator manage light in the bedroom of the old man?

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with a torch

with a lamp

with a lantern

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6. At which particular night the narrator entered in the room of the old man?

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seventh

sixth

eighth

ninth

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7. What is the name of Madeline's brother?

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Roderick

Roderick Cibble

Geremy

Peter

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8. With guitar Roderick sing one composition. What is the title of it?

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The Glass Palace

The Haunted Palace

The Hunted Palace

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9. What is something strange about Roderick and Madeline?

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They have nightmares.

They are haunted by ghosts.

They are the last two members of Usher family.

None of the above.

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10. The narrator was reading a novel to Roderick to calm down him. What was the name of the novel?

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The Haunted Palace

The Mad Trist

The Fall of the House

The Gold Bug

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11. What is the name of the narrator in The Cask of the Amontillado?

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Montresor

Fortunato

Blind Old Man

Black Cat

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12. What is Amontillado?

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soft drink

juice

wine

beer

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13. What is the setting of The Gold Bug?

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near by lake

Sullivan's Island

Arizona

Himalaya

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14. What has been stolen from the boudoir of an unnamed woman?

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her dress

a letter

her diamond ring

nothing

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15. Who has stolen the letter?

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Dupin

Minister D

James Bond

Sherlock Holmes

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16. What was arranged by Dupin to distract Minister D?

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He asked his friends to interfere.

He arranged a gun shot.

He played on music.

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17. Ratiocination is not listed in most dictionaries; however, it may be defined by deconstructing its syllables and associating it with other related words. A ratio compares the relationships between two quantities. Poe develops a new system for establishing relationships between unknown events and the motives or solutions to complex problems. True or False?

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True

False

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18. 'Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque' is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. When its publication was announced in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, its one-line description said that its title "pretty well indicates their [stories'] character".[5] There has been some debate, however, over the meaning of Poe's terms "Grotesque" and "Arabesque". Poe probably had seen the terms used by Sir Walter Scott in his essay "On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition". Which of the following statements may be considered true for the interpretation of these words - and thus the stories' character?

Refer to this for the answer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Grotesque_and_Arabesque

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Both terms refer to a type of Islamic art used to decorate walls, especially in mosques. These art styles are known for their complex nature.

Poe may have been using these terms as subdivisions of Gothic art or Gothic architecture in an attempt to establish similar subdivisions in Gothic fiction. For example, the "grotesque" stories are those where the character becomes a caricature or satire, as in "The Man That Was Used Up" / "The Tell-Tale Heart". The "arabesque" stories focus on a single aspect of a character, often psychological, such as "The Fall of the House of Usher".

A distant relative of Poe, modern scholar Harry Lee Poe, wrote that "grotesque" means "horror", which is gory and often disgusting, and "arabesque" means "terror", which forsakes the blood and gore for the sake of frightening the reader.

Even so, accurately defining Poe's intentions for the terms is difficult and subdividing his tales into one category or another is even more difficult.

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