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Poe Vocab

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Scruples refer to a person's morals.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Gothic literature often includes ____________ and scary sights.

a)

conspicuous

b)

docility

c)

apparitions

3.

Montresor asked Fortunato to tell him if he had _________ a cask of genuine Amontillado wine.

a)

atrocity

b)

stupefied

c)

procured

d)

hogshead

4.

Which of the following is not a chimera?

a)

Pegasus

b)

Sphinx

c)

Chupacabra

d)

dragon

5.

The narrator of the Black Cat claimed he was ________ with animals from a young age.

a)

congenial

b)

temperament

c)

expound

d)

haunt

6.

After Montressor shackled Fortunato to the wall, Fortunato was _____ and didn't know what was going on.

a)

sagacious

b)

stupefied

c)

haunt

d)

expound

7.

Mary Maloney's ______ after she killed her husband was oddly calm.

a)

expound

b)

procuring

c)

apparition

d)

temperament

8.

Mary Maloney ____ a leg of lamb from the freezer.

a)

haunted

b)

atrocity

c)

procured

d)

expounded

9.

The narrator made the cat seem like evil ______.

a)

hogshead

b)

incarnate

c)

succinct

d)

chimera

10.

True or False: The police were depicted as sagacious during their investigation of Mary Maloney.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

A person with scruples is _____.

a)

scruples

b)

scrupulous

c)

scupcisious

d)

scrupulousness

12.

When it is a noun, haunt means:

a)

to become a ghost

b)

A place you tend to go

13.

Change perverseness to an adjective

a)

perverseness

b)

perverse

c)

peevish

d)

verses

14.

Who is guilty of an atrocity?

a)

Mary Maloney

b)

Montresor

c)

Black Cat narrator

d)

none of the above

e)

all of the above

15.

Malevolence is the quality of evilness. It is a

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

16.

Change malevolence (n) to an adverb

a)

malevolencely

b)

malevolently

c)

malovelly

d)

malevolence

17.

Docility is a noun. It's adjective is_______.

a)

docilitously

b)

docilly

c)

docile

d)

docileness