THE RAVEN

THE RAVEN

9th Grade

11 Qs

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THE RAVEN

THE RAVEN

Assessment

Quiz

English

9th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

CCSS
RL.8.4, RL.8.10, RL.8.5

+7

Standards-aligned

Created by

KARLA HEERMAN

Used 181+ times

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About this resource

This quiz focuses on Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven," targeting 9th grade students' ability to analyze poetry through close reading and literary interpretation. Students need a solid foundation in poetic devices, including meter, stanza structure, symbolism, and mood creation, as well as the ability to identify point of view and verb tense in literary works. The questions require students to make inferences about character motivation, interpret symbolic meaning, determine vocabulary in context, and sequence narrative events chronologically. Core skills assessed include understanding how form supports meaning in poetry, recognizing allusions to classical mythology, analyzing theme development, and connecting textual evidence to larger interpretive claims about grief, loss, and psychological states. Created by Karla Heerman, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 9. This comprehensive assessment tool provides multiple opportunities for instruction and evaluation, working effectively as a post-reading quiz to check comprehension, a review activity before a unit test, or homework to reinforce close reading skills. Teachers can use individual questions as discussion starters or writing prompts, while the chronological sequencing questions offer excellent practice for narrative analysis skills. The quiz aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 for citing textual evidence to support inferences, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2 for determining themes and analyzing their development, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 for determining word meanings and analyzing cumulative impact of word choices, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5 for analyzing how structure contributes to meaning and style in literary works.

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11 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is most likely the author’s reason for putting the poem into stanzas of five octameter lines, each ending with a short and flat statement?

A. The author wants to create a lively, comic atmosphere.

B. The author wants to build an ominous mood through repetition.

C. The author puts pauses after the stanzas create confusion.

D. The poet wants to make the confrontation with the raven peaceful.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

“The Raven” is delivered mainly in ________ tense, from a ________ point of view.

A. past; first person

B. present; first person

C. past; third person

D. present; third person

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What most closely does the raven perching on the bust of Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, symbolize in the following passage?


Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;

Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;

But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door —

Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door —

Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

A. That the bird is also a figure from Greek mythology.

B. That the narrator is wealthy enough to have marble busts for furniture.

C. That nature powers over the strongest of human knowledge.

D. That the narrator was an antique collector.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is most closely the meaning of the word countenance as it is used in the following passage?


Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore —

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

A. noun | shoes

B. verb | to support

C. verb | to allow

D. noun | facial expression

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is most closely the central theme of the passage below?


Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore —

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore —

Nameless here for evermore.

A. The narrator attempts to distract himself from his grief through reading.

B. The fire throws shadows on the floor that look like ghosts.

C. Lenore no longer has a name because she is dead

D. The events recounted happened in December.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following inferences is most strongly supported by the passage below?


On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,

But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,

She shall press, ah, nevermore!

A. The narrator is not very intelligent, despite the fact that he is one of the wealthiest people in the country.

B. The velvet cushion is so soft and comfortable that the narrator has started to dream.

C. The raven is a reflection of the narrator’s grief for his beloved.

D. The narrator has mistaken the raven for his love, returned from the dead.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Place the events in chronological order as they appear in the poem.


FIRST

The narrator is reading alone at midnight.

The narrator hears a knock at the door.

The raven perches on the bust of Pallas.

The narrator curses the raven and demands he leave.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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