Edgar Allan Poe
"I became _________, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
a.) Happy b.) Red c.) Insane
c.) Insane
“It is better to fail in ___________ than to succeed in imitation.”
a.) originality b.) lying c.) copying
a.) originality
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must ________ it.”
a.) write b.) throw c.) seek
a.) write
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much ________, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
a.) eating b.) working c.) reading
c.) reading
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare ________.”
a.) blankly b.) hungrily c.) happily
a.) blankly
"Once upon a midnight ________, while I pondered weak and weary."
a.) cold b.) dreary c.) unpleasant
b.) dreary
“It is not down on any map; ______ places never are.”
a.) false b.) true c.) green
b.) true
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the _________.”
a.) tired b.) sought c.) defined
c.) defined
“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above _________, as oil floats on water.”
a.) milk b.) lies c.) grass
b.) lies
“________ me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
a.) give b.) tell c.) show
c.) show
"All that we see or seem is but a _______ within a dream.”
a.) dream b.) ghost c.) sunset
a.) dream
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a ________ Christian.”
a.) good b.) drunk c.) angry
b.) drunk
“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I ________ in it.”
a.) died b.) rose c.) failed
b.) rose
“The proof of the pudding is the _________.”
a.) eating b.) spilling c.) sending
a.) eating
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the ___________ of losing it again.”
a.) pleasure b.) sorrow c.) feeling
a.) pleasure
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some ___________ in the proportion.”
a.) strangeness b.) ugliness c.) sugar
a.) strangeness
“I try all things, I ________ what I can.”
a.) achieve b.) do c.) eat
a.) achieve
“Like any artist without an art form, she became __________.”
a.) sullen b.) dangerous c.) happy
b.) dangerous
“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something ________ in it.”
a.) weird b.) silly c.) good
c.) good
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any _________.”
a.) fun b.) privacy c.) alcohol
b.) privacy
“Believe nothing you ________, and only one half that you see.”
a.) taste b.) know c.) hear
c.) hear
“Ignorance is the _________ of fear.”
a.) pet b.) cousin c.) parent
c.) parent
“You are your _________ thing”
a.) best b.) only c.) saddest
a.) best
“___________ is the best sauce in the world.”
a.) salsa b.) hunger c.) love
b.) hunger
“Let us learn to show our ___________ for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
a.) friendship b.) hatred c.) amusement
a.) friendship