The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe Test

Type the following sentence with correct punctuation and capitalization.

I really appreciate stated the triplets' mother your willingness to babysit

Check all of the boxes in which you would need to use quotation marks.

• Naming the title of a long work such as a novel

• Naming the title of a short work such as a song, article, poem, or short story

• Dialogue

• Highlighting something important such as the main idea of a passage

• A direct quote

Check the box next to the correctly written statements. There will be more than one.

• "I love McDonald's French fries," declared my mom, "but they are so unhealthy!"

• "Five Guys actually has the best fries," I argued. "They are super tasty with vinegar."

• "I have to agree." replied my mom, "I wish they were better for you."

• "If French fries were healthy," I said. "I would eat them every day."

What is the connection between Edgar Allan Poe and the Baltimore MD football team?

• team has a mascot that is a black cat

• team named after Poe's poem

• team's nickname is Poe's boys

• team name created by Poe's great grandson

Read this famous quote by Maya Angelou:

"If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

In this quote, how is you can be. correctly written?

• you can be".

• you can be."

• you can be"

• As it is

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.", is a famous line from one of his Sonnets, who is this poet?

• Walt Whitman

• Daniel Defoe

• William Shakespeare

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

The quotation marks in the following sentence are used correctly to show the title of the work:

One of my favorite short stories by Edgar Allan Poe is called "The Black Cat".

• True

• False

Much of the inspiration for Poe's stories came from tragedy in his own life

• true

• false

Which of the following of Poe's work made him a household name?

• "The Raven"

• "The Cask of Amontillado"

• "The Tell-Tale Heart"

• "The Fall of the House of Usher"

The narrator of the poem is most likely Poe himself.

• true

• false