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