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