Part A

What can be inferred about the speaker in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe?


A. The speaker believes the raven is not a real bird but a ghost.

B. The speaker begins to believe that the raven is cursed.

C. The speaker's guilt over his feelings for Lenore is personified in the raven.

D. The speaker thinks that Lenore is disguised as the raven.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A?


A. "'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! —prophet still, if bird or devil!'"

B. "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door"

C. "Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer"

D. "And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor"