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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Which of the following best describes the relationship between the speaker and Lenore?
A. Lenore was the speaker's lover who died.
B. Lenore is the speaker's enemy and has cursed him.
C. Lenore was the speaker's lover who broke up with him.
D. Lenore is the speaker's friend with whom the speaker is secretly in love.
Which of the following best describes a central idea of the text?
A. Loss and grief can have powerful effects on the mind.
B. The supernatural is proof that death is not the end.
C. Fear is only a state of mind, and cannot significantly harm anyone.
D. Evil deeds will always come back to haunt us.
How do the allusions, or references, made to Pallas (Athena) and Pluto (Hades) inform the character of the raven?
These allusions contribute to the raven's characterization as the speaker's punishment, as classical gods were often seen as cruel and petty.
These allusions imply that the raven is far more powerful than it at first seems and it is there to cast judgement on the speaker.
These allusions make the raven seem otherworldly and informs his symbolic nature as a possible messenger from the afterlife.
These allusions remind the reader that the speaker is mentally unbalanced and mistaking a raven for a god.
Which TWO of the following quotes best embody how the imagery develops the supernatural atmosphere of the poem?
"Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, / Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before." (Lines 31-32)
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December" (Line 7)
"Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; / But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door — " (Lines 39-40)
"Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor." (Lines 79-80)
"And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting / On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; / And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, / And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor (Lines 103-106).
threatening evil or harm
placid
entreat
ominous
surcease
What time of the day or night does the poem take place?
Midnight
twilight
Noon
Dawn
After pondering the purpose of this bird, what is the next action that the narrator takes?
He shouts at the raven.
He reads to the raven.
He pulls up a chair and sits in front of the raven.
He swings a broom at the raven.
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil, prophet still, if bird or devil!" shows the narrator's mental status which is best described as
losing his sanity
growing more calm
paranoid
sarcastic
When the raven only speaks the word, "Nevermore," how does the narrator respond?
he laughs
he kills the bird
he grows increasingly frustrated
he cries
What three words from the first stanza helps establish the tone?
quaint, curious, forgotten
dreary, weak, weary
napping, tapping, rapping
midnight, pondered, muttered
