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