Question 1
Who wrote the tale about a narrator haunted by the sound of a dead man's beating heart?
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Herman Melville
- Mark Twain
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Edgar Allan Poe
Literature · Books & Characters
Short Stories trivia quiz
Short Stories trivia, played live: seven rounds, ten seconds a question. QuizDown has over 120 Short Stories questions, from easy to expert, and you’re matched with a real player who gets the same seven.
What the Short Stories questions cover
- Hemingway
- Poe
- Borges
- Chekhov
- Faulkner
- Maupassant
- Saki
- Andersen
- Bradbury
- Irving
- Jackson
- Le Guin
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Question 2
What is the title of Edgar Allan Poe's story in which a man is imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition?
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Black Cat
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Question 3
Who wrote the story about a couple who each sacrifices a prized possession to buy the other a gift?
- Jack London
- Ambrose Bierce
- O. Henry
- Stephen Crane
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O. Henry
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How a Short Stories match works
- Seven rounds. The same seven Short Stories questions for you and your opponent.
- Ten seconds each. A right answer in two seconds scores 20; at the buzzer, 11.
- The last round counts double. It’s never over until it’s over.
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