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Final Exam Practice

Total questions: 76

Worksheet time: 53mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?"

What does blasphemous mean?

a)

fearless

b)

courageous

c)

profane; disrespectful

d)

infectious

2.

Poe characterizes the Prince as happy and dauntless and sagacious.

Which means ...

a)

happy and brave and wise

b)

happy and crazy and fearless

c)

happy and brave and frightening

d)

happy and scared and wise

3.

The mummer arrives at midnight.

What does mummer mean?

a)

fan of exciting games

b)

owner of the abbey

c)

party guest

d)

actor who communicates by gestures and facial expression

4.

To describe the mummer's appearance, Poe uses the word habiliments. What does habiliments mean?

a)

bravery

b)

clothing

c)

decorations

d)

hallucinations

5.

Which word below describes a festival or feast?

a)

disapprobation

b)

fete

c)

dissolution

d)

dominion

6.

The masquerade is described as a "voluptuous scene."

Which word does NOT mean voluptuous?

a)

delightful

b)

appealing

c)

indulgent

d)

horrendous

7.

When the disease hits, there is profuse bleeding and then the pores break down or separate. Poe uses which word to explain that.

a)

dauntless

b)

dominion

c)

dissolution

d)

disconcert

8.

A costume party is filled with phantasms or

a)

decorations

b)

party food

c)

hallucinations

d)

candlesticks

9.

Grand, magnificent

a)

grotesque

b)

wanton

c)

bizarre

d)

august

10.

The revelers refused to believe they were susceptible to contagion.

a)

disapprobation

b)

poison, infection

c)

supremacy

d)

immoral behavior

11.

a)

reveries

b)

candelabrum

c)

phantasms

d)

mummer

12.

To be upset or frustrated; bothered

a)

disconcert

b)

august

c)

sedated

d)

piquancy

13.

All of the following describe sedate except ....

a)

somber

b)

solemn

c)

sacrilegious

d)

serious

14.

Immoral; sinful

a)

wanton

b)

sagacious

c)

contagion

d)

piquancy

15.

to hold dominion over all

a)

submission

b)

weakness

c)

festival

d)

control; supremacy

16.

Which word means pleasantly sharp quality?

a)

voluptuous

b)

piquancy

c)

contagion

d)

dominion

17.

Which word mean disapproval?

a)

disapprobation

b)

phantasms

c)

fete

d)

dissolution

18.

Fancy decorations

a)

reveries

b)

habiliments

c)

embellisments

d)

phantasms

19.

bizarre or distorted

a)

wanton

b)

grotesque

c)

arabesque

d)

piquancy

20.

Choose all that apply: dissolution

a)

liquify

b)

wrong

c)

decompose

d)

debauchery

21.

a)

mummer

b)

contagion

c)

grotesque

d)

arabesque

22.
whippoorwills
a)
type of fish
b)
tool
c)
weapon
d)
type of bird
23.
monstrous
a)
abnormally large
b)
ugly
c)
medium
d)
fatal
24.

sawyer (more than one answer)

a)

last name

b)

lumber mill operator

c)

beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees

d)

battlement

25.
sentinel
a)
team
b)
dentures
c)
tool
d)
guard
26.
stench
a)
used for ironing
b)
stamp
c)
bad taste
d)
bad smell
27.
precipice
a)
bottom of a sea
b)
a steep rock cliff
c)
end of an epic
d)
new beginning
28.
manuscript
a)
typing
b)
a book or writing
c)
opposite of womanscript
d)
prescription
29.
goatish
a)
animalish
b)
funny
c)
looking like a goat
d)
lustful
30.

swath (more than one answer)

a)

a lawn mower path

b)

a path made by a scythe

c)

smashing

d)

bravest

31.
dun
a)
bluish
b)
yellowish
c)
dull red
d)
dull grey brown
32.
amidth
a)
without
b)
overall
c)
among
d)
outside
33.
nigh
a)
not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
b)
far away
c)
far out
d)
midway
34.
jest
a)
mean
b)
idiotic
c)
moronic
d)
joke
35.
kin
a)
related by blood
b)
related by marriage
c)
related by genus
d)
related by species
36.
entity
a)
building material
b)
created being
c)
school district
d)
a being, like a creature who is material or immaterial; a ghost.
37.
albino
a)
a person with white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink.
b)
a person who paints.
c)
a mythical creature
d)
Greek myth
38.
dew
a)
desert conditions
b)
happens only in winter
c)
perfection
d)
water vapor from the air created by cool night air.
39.
summit
a)
top of a mountain
b)
base camp
c)
encampment
d)
brandname
40.

necronomicon(more than one answer)

a)

fiction

b)

book of magic

c)

written by Lovecraft

d)

technical manual

41.
undecayed
a)
old
b)
grave plot
c)
undead
d)
not decomposed; opposite of decayed
42.
unmistakably
a)
mistaken
b)
big mistake
c)
epic fail
d)
no mistake
43.
zebulon
a)
a friend
b)
Star Trek character
c)
honored
d)
new housing
44.
accursed
a)
under a curse
b)
blessed
c)
perfected
d)
extinct
45.

swath (more than one answer)

a)

open space preserve

b)

mower path

c)

scythe path

d)

path of destruction

46.
shudder
a)
opening
b)
aperture
c)
to shake, with fear or cold
d)
blast door
47.
indisputably
a)
wrong idea
b)
best idea
c)
lost argument
d)
can't be argued
48.
behold
a)
to miss something
b)
to see
c)
to be blind
d)
blinded
49.
prostrate
a)
body organ
b)
upright
c)
standing
d)
laying on the ground
50.
erudition
a)
Not well read
b)
retained
c)
to be knowledgeable
d)
retention
51.
hastily
a)
quickly
b)
slowly
c)
snails' pace
d)
turtles' pace
52.
cataclysmic
a)
severely destructive
b)
spasm
c)
seizure
d)
siren's call
53.
antiquity
a)
last year
b)
another age
c)
times after the Middle Ages
d)
ancient times before the Middle Ages
54.
wheezing
a)
strong breathing
b)
breathing with a whistling sound
c)
yogic breathing exercise
55.

occult (more than one answer)

a)

a group of Laker fans

b)

a group of hippies

c)

hidden

d)

magical

56.
bequeathed
a)
stolen
b)
lost
c)
give
d)
take
57.
ensued
a)
to go to court
b)
to name a girl Sue
c)
to lose a lawsuit
d)
to happen after an event
58.
retrogression
a)
to go backward
b)
to go forward
c)
to go sideways
d)
to go off a cliff
59.
anemic
a)
strong
b)
a knee's place
c)
a city in Massachusetts
d)
weak
60.

jargon(more than one answer)

a)

a basketball shot

b)

terminology

c)

specific words

d)

a joke

61.

prodigious(more than one answer)

a)

little

b)

just enough

c)

a large amount

d)

a lot of

62.

imperceptibly (2 answers)

a)

sensible

b)

insensible

c)

invisible

d)

blind

63.

disquieting (2 answers)

a)

noisy

b)

unrest

c)

uneasy

d)

soothing

64.

precociousness (3 answers)

a)

mature

b)

late

c)

quickly learning

d)

early in development

65.

conjecture (3 answers)

a)

unknown

b)

educated guess

c)

estimate

d)

surmise

66.

extirpation (3 answers)

a)

to wipe out

b)

to destory

c)

to amend

d)

to cut out

67.

Based on the following excerpt from the text, which word is the best definition for the word maiden:

“That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee”

a)

kid

b)

young girl

c)

housekeeper

d)

nurse

68.

Based on the text "With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven," which is the best definition of the underlined word?

a)

love

b)

demons

c)

angels

d)

birds

69.

Based on the excerpt from the text, choose the best definition for the underlined word.

"And neither the angels in Heaven above

Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;"

a)

put together

b)

see

c)

imagine

d)

tear apart

70.

Based on the excerpt from the text, choose the best definition for the underlined word.

"Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee...

...In her tomb by the sounding sea."

a)

place to bury dead

b)

monument

c)

finger

d)

house

71.

Based on the excerpt from the text, choose the best definition for the underlined word.


"And neither the angels in heaven above

Nor the demons down under the sea"

a)

bad people

b)

elves

c)

evil spirits

d)

good creatures

72.

Based on the excerpt from the text, choose the best definition for the underlined word.


"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so all the night-tide I lie down by the side

Of my darling — my darling — my life and my bride"

a)

sunrise

b)

night time

c)

high tide

d)

life

73.

Based on the excerpt from the text, choose the best definition for the underlined word.


"So that her highborn kinsmen came

And bore her away from me,"

a)

from a rich background

b)

from the high lands

c)

riding high horses

d)

doctors

74.

Based on the excerpt from the text, choose the best definition for the underlined word.


"In this kingdom by the sea

A wind blew out of a cloud chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me"

a)

kings and queens

b)

assistants

c)

criminals

d)

family members

75.

Based on the excerpt from the text, choose the best definition for the underlined word.


"A wind blew out of a cloud chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me

To shut her up in a sepulcher

In this kingdom by the sea."

a)

room

b)

hospital

c)

tomb

d)

tower

76.

Based on the excerpt from the text, choose the best definition for the underlined word.


"But we loved with a love that was more than love —

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me"

a)

envied

b)

hide

c)

hated

d)

loved