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The Raven
Test Description: Preparation for the test over The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What does surcease mean?
A
Ungraceful, awkward
B
Manner
C
Deceiving
D
An end
2) What does ominous mean?
A
Peaceful
B
Ungraceful, awkward
C
Sinister
D
Felt surprised
3) What does beguiling mean?
A
Ungraceful, awkward
B
Peaceful
C
Sinister
D
Deceiving
4) What does ungainly mean?
A
Deceiving
B
Peaceful
C
Ungraceful, awkward
D
Manner
5) What does mien mean?
A
Deceiving
B
An end
C
Sinister
D
Manner
6) What does marveled mean?
A
Sinister
B
Felt surprised
C
Ungraceful, awkward
D
Peaceful
7) What does placid mean?
A
Sinister
B
Peaceful
C
Deceiving
D
Temporary relief
8) What does respite mean?
A
An end
B
Temporary relief
C
Manner
D
Felt surprised
9) What is the major symbol in The Raven?
A
The bust of Pallas
B
The dying embers
C
The door
D
The raven
10) What does a raven symbolize in Christian cultures?
A
Sin, devil, death
B
Thought and Memory
C
Omen
D
Wisdom
11) Which lines in every stanza use repetition?
A
3rd and 4th
B
2nd and 4th
C
1st and 2nd
D
4th and 5th
12) What does the Raven represent in the poem?
A
Sin
B
The pain of losing Lenore
C
Death
D
A bird
13) Which pair of words exemplify slant rhyme?
A
Evil, devil
B
Remember, December
C
Turning, burning
D
Lenore, nevermore
14) What does the Raven represent in Greek and Roman cultures?
A
Wisdom
B
Sin, devil, death
C
Omen
D
A bird
15) What does the raven have in common with what it symbolizes?
A
Nobody likes either of them.
B
Both are black.
C
They both remind the reader of death.
D
Neither will ever leave the speaker.
16) Which line does NOT contain alliteration?
A
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word Lenore!
B
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
C
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain...
D
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
17) Which line demonstrates internal rhyme?
A
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
B
Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! I shrieked, upstarting—
C
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
D
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!
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