The Raven Study Quiz

When the narrator states "my hopes have flown before", what tone is implied?

• dark

• desperate

• hopeful

• hopeless

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does "balm in Gilead" refer to?

• The raven

• Lenore

• Healing and relief

• Wisdom

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does the narrator compare the raven to?

• Lenore

• Prophet

• Pallas

• Shadow

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does the narrator want to forget?

• Lenore

• His sorrow

• The raven

• Pallas

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

An example of alliteration is ...

• "silence was unbroken".

• "rapping, rapping on my chamber door".

• "my soul within me burning".

• "nodded, nearly napping".

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What happens to the raven at the end of "The Raven"?

• It pecks the speaker to death.

• It flies away.

• It stays where it is.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The repetition of "still is sitting" in the last stanza helps you infer that the speaker

• resents the raven's presence in the room

• has grown friendly with the raven

• thinks that the raven is a sign from heaven

• wonders if the raven will speak again

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The speaker can best be described as a -

• lonely, elderly man longing for visitors

• a poet seeking inspiration for a new work

• magician conjuring up evil spirits

• melancholy person trying to forget a great tragedy

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What are three words from the 1st stanza that help establish the tone?

• napping, tapping, rapping

• midnight, pondered, muttered

• dreary, weak, weary

• All of the above

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Readers can infer from the poem's conclusion that the speaker will

• never escape his despair

• make his sorrow the subject of a great poem

• be reunited with Lenore

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9