WorksheetsThriller and Unusual Fiction
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edgar Allan Poe
Roald Dahl
Ray Bradbury
Who wrote The Monkey's Paw?
Frank Stockton
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
W. W. Jacobs
Who wrote The Lady or the Tiger?
Frank Stockton
W.W. Jacobs
Edgar Allan Poe
Roald Dahl
“There was no escape from the judgments of the king’s arena.” (from The Lady, or the Tiger?) In the king’s arena who makes the judgment?
The tiger or the lady makes the judgment.
The king makes the judgment.
The criminal makes the judgment.
The judgment is left to chance.
In the story There Will Come Soft Rains, why were there no people around?
The story takes place on another planet, and people didn’t live there.
An atomic bomb happened and no people were left in existence.
All the people were gone on vacation.
The house had destroyed all the inhabitants.
Why is the princess in The Lady, or the Tiger? interested in being present for the event of her lover (the young man accused) deciding his fate in the arena?
Because she lacks empathy and compassion.
Because she hopes to save the young man.
Because she loves the young man.
Because barbarism is in her nature.
The princess in The Lady or the Tiger? acquired the secret to what were behind which doors simply because she was the princess.
True
False
The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart hated the old man.
True
False
A fire started in There Will Come Soft Rains due to a tree crashing through the kitchen window.
True
False
