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Thriller and Unusual Fiction

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
fronts of buildings
a)
facades
b)
gesticulations
c)
rapacious
d)
acute
2.
greedy
a)
sublime
b)
tantalizing
c)
rapacious
d)
sagacity
3.
to come forth
a)
audacity
b)
tremulous
c)
wary
d)
emanate
4.
pleasant
a)
refrained
b)
congenial
c)
suavity
d)
sublime
5.
teasing
a)
wary
b)
tantalizing
c)
rapacious
d)
derision
6.
trembling
a)
tremulous
b)
vehemently
c)
paranoia
d)
wary
7.
unaware
a)
oblivious
b)
vexed
c)
paranoia
d)
derision
8.
majestic
a)
oblivious
b)
acute
c)
derision
d)
sublime
9.
false suspicions
a)
facades
b)
vexed
c)
emanate
d)
paranoia
10.
held back
a)
refrained
b)
wary
11.
ridicule
a)
derision
b)
audacity
12.
sharp
a)
acute
b)
vexed
13.
cautious
a)
refrained
b)
wary
14.
annoyed
a)
vehemently
b)
vexed
15.
energetic gestures
a)
gesticulations
b)
facades
16.
intelligence and good judgment
a)
sagacity
b)
sauvity
17.
smoothness
a)
sagacity
b)
sauvity
18.
forcefully
a)
vehemently
b)
vexed
19.
boldness
a)
acute
b)
audacity
c)
congenial
d)
derision
20.

Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart?

a)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

Roald Dahl

d)

Ray Bradbury

21.

Who wrote The Monkey's Paw?

a)

Frank Stockton

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

Walt Whitman

d)

W. W. Jacobs

22.

Who wrote The Lady or the Tiger?

a)

Frank Stockton

b)

W.W. Jacobs

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

Roald Dahl

23.

“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?

a)

The tiger or the lady makes the judgment.

b)

The king makes the judgment.

c)

The criminal makes the judgment.

d)

The judgment is left to chance.

24.

In the story There Will Come Soft Rains, why were there no people around?

a)

The story takes place on another planet, and people didn’t live there.

b)

An atomic bomb happened and no people were left in existence.

c)

All the people were gone on vacation.

d)

The house had destroyed all the inhabitants.

25.

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?

a)

Because she lacks empathy and compassion.

b)

Because she hopes to save the young man.

c)

Because she loves the young man.

d)

Because barbarism is in her nature.

26.

The princess in The Lady or the Tiger? acquired the secret to what were behind which doors simply because she was the princess.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart hated the old man.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

A fire started in There Will Come Soft Rains due to a tree crashing through the kitchen window.

a)

True

b)

False