Evaluate general reading comprehension and eliminate assessment planning responsibilities with this plot-based quiz covering the short story “The Imp of the Perverse” by Edgar Allan Poe, a piece of horror and psychological fiction that explores the impulse to do wrong for wrong’s sake alone. The assessment may double as a guided reading handout to facilitate engagement with the text. An answer key and copy of the public domain narrative, which is especially fitting for the Halloween season, are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:
- The principles of phrenology
- The narrator’s assessment of phrenology
- The narrator’s understanding of perverseness
- The location from which the narrator shares his account
- The means by which the narrator committed his crime
- How the narrator learned of the murder method
- The immediate results of the murder
- How the narrator’s mind shifts over time
- The narrator’s repeated motto
- How the public comes to learn of the narrator’s crime
- The narrator’s ponderings in the resolution
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