1. “The Most Dangerous Game” is a suspense story mostly about _____.
A) a soccer match in a poor South American neighborhood
B) one man hunting another man on an island
C) how hazardous hunting was before guns were invented
D) the games that inmates play in prison

2.Some authors use _____ to create tension and suspense in their stories.
A) onomatopoeia
B) connotation
C) an unreliable narrator
D) alliteration

3.In “The Raven,” a bird torments the speaker by constantly reminding him of his _____.
A) lost love, Lenore
B) disheveled, messy library
C) crippling debt owed to the government
D) nonstop pounding headaches

4.Which of the following quotes from the “The Cask of Amontillado” demonstrates that the narrator uses first person?
A) I uncovered a quantity of building stone and mortar.
B) He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.
C) The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled.
D) Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead.

5.In “The Lottery,” men from each family must select a piece of paper from a box. This creates suspense because the reader _____.
A) learns the last names of all of the major characters
B) understands more background information on the stock characters
C) asks if there will be enough papers for all of the families
D) wonders about the purpose of the papers

6.Poe uses alliteration in “The Bells” when he writes “What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells.” The effect of this literary device is to _____.
A) emphasize how loud the speaker is ringing the bells
B) shift the mood of the poem from light and upbeat to dark and foreboding
C) hint to the reader that the next line will be especially important
D) highlight how intelligent the speaker believes himself to be