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The Raven

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Select the 3 questions that the speaker asks the Raven.

a)

What is your name?

b)

Where did you come from?

c)

Can you ease my pain and sorrow?

d)

Is Lenore in heaven?

2.

To whom is the speaker referring to when he says that he mourns for the "rare and radiant maiden?"

a)

Gilead

b)

Plutonian

c)

Seraphim

d)

Lenore

3.

The "Plutonian Shore" is a __________ allusion.

a)

Mythological

b)

Literary

c)

Biblical

d)

Historical

4.
What is the only word that the raven utters?
a)

Lenore

b)

Quoth

c)

Nothing more

d)

Nevermore

5.
Where does the raven perch once he enters the room?
a)

bust of Pallas

b)

the window

c)

On the velvet chair

d)

The mantle over the fireplace.

6.
The raven is a symbol of . . .
a)

Death

b)

 grief

c)

a prophet

d)

All of these

7.

Select the vocabulary word that refers to the garden of Eden.

a)

Balm in Gilead

b)

Plutonian

c)

Aidenn

d)

Dirg

8.

Medicine used to relieve pain and suffering is called

a)

balm

b)

dirge

c)

Gilead

d)

mutter

9.

Sad or gloomy means

a)

melancholy

b)

placid

c)

pallid

d)

fancy

10.
The speaker can best be described as a —
a)
lonely, elderly man longing for visitors
b)
magician conjuring up evil spirits
c)
poet seeking inspiration for a new work
d)
melancholy person trying to forget a great tragedy
11.

What happens when the speaker opens the door?

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;

    But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,

    And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”

This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”—

            Merely this and nothing more.

a)

He sees a shadow.

b)

The ghost of Lenore appears.

c)

The Raven flies in.

d)

He peers into darkness.

12.

When the raven continues to respond with "Nevermore," how does the narrator feel?

a)

He accuses the bird of lying

b)

He kills the bird

c)

He simply laughs and tells the raven to leave

d)

He grows increasingly frustrated and begins to become angry

13.
"And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." 
Is an example of which poetic device?
a)
Alliteration
b)
Repetition
c)
Rhyme
d)
Imagery
14.
What is the poem’s mood?
a)

Reassuring

b)

Romantic

c)

Uplifting

d)

Dark & melancholy

15.

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

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

            Only this and nothing more.”

a)

napping, tapping, rapping

b)

quaint, curious, forgotten

c)

dreary, weak, weary

d)

nearly, gently, suddenly

16.

"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December"

Bleak means

a)

sad, lonely

b)

dark, dreary

c)

happy, cheerful

d)

long, drawn out

17.

"While I nodded, nearly napping…" is an example of which literary device

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

alliteration 

c)

simile

d)

repetition

18.

What happens to the raven at the end of the poem?

a)

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”

b)

   Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

c)

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

19.

____________ wrote The Raven.

a)

Edgar Allen Wright

b)

Robert Frost

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

The Raven

20.

The narrator was sitting in his chamber when a raven tapped on his window. What is a chamber?

a)

chair

b)

bed

c)

room

d)

bathtub

21.

The Raven’s manner was calm and placid as he perched on the statue. What does placid mean?

a)

peaceful

b)

dreary

c)

lonely

d)

thin

22.

"The Raven" is told from from the ____________ perspective.

a)

First person

b)

Second Person

c)

Third Person

23.

Which lines contain repetition?

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,

Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.

“Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice;

      Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore—

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—

            ’Tis the wind and nothing more!”

a)

1 & 2

b)

2 & 4

c)

4 & 5

d)

1 & 3

24.

The attitude the speaker/narrator has towards a topic/subject is called

a)

mood

b)

tone

c)

imagery

25.

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

a)

die from grief

b)

continue to ask questions to the Raven

c)

leave his haunted house

d)

never recover from the loss of Lenore.

26.

What does the narrator wish to know when he asks the Raven: "Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, / It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore"?

a)

Will his poem be successful?

b)

Does Lenore still love him?

c)

Why has the Raven visited him?

d)

Will he be reunited with Lenore in the afterlife?

27.

The setting of the poem is...

a)

midnight, December, chamber

b)

midnight

c)

midnight in December

d)

the narrator's chamber

28.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

Ebony means

a)

strange or creepy

b)

dark black in color

c)

calm and peaceful

d)

from the underworld

29.

"So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating/ 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.'"

In this line, the narrator is trying to ____________________________.

a)

Search for his lost Lenore

b)

Prepare himself for his guest

c)

Calm his beating heart

d)

Convince himself it's only a visitor at the door

30.

How does the narrator explain how the raven learned to speak?

a)

Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster

b)

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

c)

 Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

d)

Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore

31.

"Other friends have flown before / On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." The narrator is saying...

a)

The narrator's friend can fly.

b)

The raven will leave him, like his friends have.

c)

The narrator has no hope left.

d)

The narrator is expecting friends tomorrow.

32.

What is the resolution of the poem?

a)

The raven has left the narrator alone.

b)

The raven is still in the narrator's chamber and the narrator is consumed by his grief.

c)

The raven has brought Lenore to the narrator.

d)

The narrator opens the window and the raven leaves.

33.

"... What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore/ meant in croaking 'Nevermore'." what literary devices are evident in this line?

a)

Alliteration/Onomatopeia

b)

Alliteration/Simile

c)

Alliteration/Allusion

d)

Alliteration/Repetition

34.

Read the line from the poem and choose the definition of the CAPITALIZED word: “Leave no black PLUME as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken” (99)!

a)

angel

b)

feather

c)

drink

d)

dreary

35.
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil, prophet still, if bird or devil!" is an example of . . .
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Alliteration
d)
Hyperbole