The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Which three verbs show what the narrator is doing in the first stanza?

• pondered (deep in thought)

• laughing

• nodded (falling asleep)

• Napping

The narrator of the poem is sad because his lost love is dead. What is her name and how does he try to escape his sorrow?

• Her name is Linda and he dreams of her to remember

• He name is Lisa and he escapes his sorrow by looking at pictures of her every day

• Her name is Lenore and the narrator is trying to escape the sorrow by reading his books

What fills the narrator’s heart with terror in stanza 3?

• Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—

  This it is and nothing more.”

• So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating

  “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.

• The sad and uncertain rustling of each purple curtain. The movement of the curtains is making him feel afraid.

What does the narrator see when he first opens the chamber door (stanza 4)?

• Light

• Darkness

• Lenore

• A ghost of his friendly past

In stanza 7, the raven flies into the narrator’s chamber. Where does the raven perch?

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

• 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;

• A bust of Pallas (The goddess of wisdom) above the chamber door.

What is the first question the narrator asks the raven (stanza 8)?

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

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

• Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly

What is the raven’s only answer to the narrator’s questions?

• Nonetheless

• Nevermore

• Nowadays

In stanza 12, the narrator sits down in front of the raven. What is the narrator thinking as he looks at the bird?

• He is trying to figure out if its the disguise of the bird is something more

• He believes that this bird is more than likely Lenore

• He is trying to figure out what the raven is trying to tell him by saying, “Nevermore.”

Where is the raven at the end of the poem (stanza 18)? What does the raven’s presence tell the reader about the narrator’s grief?

• Still sitting, not leaving. The ravens presence says that the narrator’s grief will never go away.

• Flying away because he has told the narrator all he can tell him

• The raven is now in the house as the narrator has welcomed him into his home for good