2nd 9 Weeks Exam (DOK 2)
  • 1. Coveted means
A) to urge on
B) to state clearly
C) not important
D) to wish for
  • 2. "So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a _________ of brown waters."
A) chronicle
B) vestibule
C) prudence
D) cascade
  • 3. Which of the following is the best possible theme in the story?
A) Manage your money wisely.
B) Hard work is rewarded.
C) Buy good gifts.
D) Appreciate others.
  • 4. Jesse always ____________ fights between her friends.
A) instigates
B) coveted
C) predominating
D) chronicle
  • 5. The _____________ cat lunged after its prey.
A) prudence
B) inconsequential
C) agile
D) predominating
  • 6. An historical account of events is a/an:
A) chronicle
B) cascade
C) vestibule
D) assertion
  • 7. Who is the author of "The Black Cat"?
A) Richard Connell
B) Frank Stockton
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Saki
  • 8. What point of view does the author use in "The Black Cat"?
A) 2nd
B) 3rd omniscient
C) 3rd limited
D) 1st
  • 9. Poe is known as the "Father of __________."
A) Literature
B) Poetry
C) Horror
D) Short Stories
  • 10. During what time period did "The Black Cat" take place?
A) 2000s
B) 1700s
C) 1800s
D) 1900s
  • 11. Who does the man blame for Virginia's murder in "The Black Cat"?
A) himself
B) the cat
C) the devil
D) Virginia
  • 12. Virginia Poe dies from ______________.
A) pneumonia
B) tuberculosis
C) cancer
D) natural causes
  • 13. Who is the author of "The Raven"?
A) James Joyce
B) E.A. Poe
C) Frank Connell
D) Saki
  • 14. "While I pondered over many a ___________ and curious forgotten lore."
A) quaint
B) beguiling
C) desolate
D) respite
  • 15. Pallid means:
A) strange
B) rest
C) charming
D) pale
  • 16. What is the setting of "The Raven"?
A) bleak December
B) bright Spring
C) snowy Winter
D) humid June
  • 17. Who was "Lenore"?
A) the raven
B) a character in the book
C) Poe
D) Poe's wife Virginia
  • 18. What year was Edgar Allan Poe born?
A) 1800
B) 1900
C) 1809
D) 1803
  • 19. In poetry, what is the use, again and again, of a word or phrase?
A) rhyme
B) refrain
C) figurative language
D) repetition
  • 20. When the word or phrase appears in all the stanzas it is termed a:
A) simile
B) refrain
C) rhyme
D) repetition
  • 21. The the statement about life that the author is communicating through a literay work is
A) theme
B) rhythm
C) message
D) meaning
  • 22. _________________ is the way a poem is organized.
A) Stylistic device
B) Subject
C) Mood
D) Structure
  • 23. ______________ is a form of poetic paragraphs. They indicate separate thoughts and are separated from one another by spaces.
A) Stanza
B) Style
C) Rhythm
D) Alliteration
  • 24. When reading poetry, one should:
A) read it several times
B) perform the poem
C) watch the audience
D) read it once
  • 25. The musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is ________________.
A) emotion
B) assonance
C) onomatopoeia
D) rhythm
  • 26. The use of words that sound like their meaning is:
A) rhyme
B) onomatopoeia
C) alliteration
D) assonance
  • 27. _______________ is the repetition of similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
A) Onomatopoeia
B) Rhythm
C) Assonance
D) Alliteration
  • 28. To understand a poem, readers should consider the following: subject of poem, mood, author's purpose, and emotional effect.
A) disagree
B) agree
  • 29. The literary methods used by the author to create a particular effect is:
A) structure
B) tone
C) stylistic devices
D) stanza
  • 30. Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
A) Did you spill the milk?
B) Twinkle, twinkle little star.
C) Tommy ate a piece of cake.
D) Suzy sold seashells by the seashore.
  • 31. An example of assonance is:
A) Timmy told a tale to the teacher.
B) The car crashed into the ocean.
C) Every elephant eats eggs in the early evening.
D) Bah, bah, black sheep.
  • 32. Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?
A) The log crackled in the fireplace.
B) The boy ate a bag of potato chips.
C) The car crashed into the ocean.
D) The bell tinkled all night long.
  • 33. An example of end rhyme is:
A) Twinkle, twinkle little star/How I wonder what you are.
B) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
C) Love is a flower.
D) The girl crunched a bag of potato chips.
  • 34. The rhyme of words within a line of poetry is:
A) internal rhyme
B) rhythm
C) structure
D) end rhyme
  • 35. In "The Bells", what stylistic device is used in line 4 "How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle?"
A) assonance
B) rhythm
C) onomatopoeia
D) rhyme
  • 36. Who is the author of "The Bells"?
A) Frank Stockton
B) Elvin Alex Poe
C) Richard Connell
D) Edgar A. Poe
  • 37. Benevolence means:
A) good will
B) patience
C) social justice
D) self-control
  • 38. Extremely poor is:
A) welfare
B) compassion
C) forbearance
D) destitute
  • 39. Scrooge has a/an _______________ of wealth to share with the world.
A) mercy
B) suffering
C) individual
D) abundance
  • 40. Which spirits haunt Scrooge?
A) Marley, Present, Future
B) wife, sister
C) Past, Present, Future
D) Marley, Past, Present, Future
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