The premature burial - Edgar Allan Poe
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English
10th Grade - Professional Development
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Why were people often buried alive?
Relatives drugged and buried them for the inheritance.
Diseases often gave the appearance of death.
Revenge.
All of the above.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Why was the tomb of the lawyer's wife open years later?
They suspected it had been robbed.
They were putting it in a sarcophagus.
The body had to be examined because it was believed she was murdered.
They were burying another family member.
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CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Why did the journalist travel to find the grave of Victorine Lafourcade?
He wanted to be buried with her.
He suspected her husband had killed her.
He suspected that she had faked her death.
He suspected that she was buried alive.
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CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What happens once Victorine Lafourcade recovers from her premature burial?
She goes back to her husband.
She goes to America by herself.
She reports to the police that her husband tried to kill her.
She goes to America with the journalist.
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CCSS.RL.2.10
CCSS.RL.2.2
CCSS.RL.2.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.4.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
How did they know the man who was thrown from a horse had been buried alive?
The man managed to dig himself out of the shallow grave.
A man felt the earth shifting when he was walking near the grave.
People heard the man crying out from the vault.
A friend told the undertaker that the man suffered from catalepsy.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What finally killed the man thrown from the horse?
He suffocated trying to get out of his grave.
A brain injury.
Bad doctors.
Fear of his own coffin.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Which case did not have a happy ending?
The lawyer's wife's.
Victorine Lefourcade's.
The German Officer's.
The narrator's.
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
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