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"Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe Trivia Quiz

This is one of Poe's stories of revenge and it's wonderfully gruesome.

A multiple-choice quiz by srfield99. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
srfield99

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
278,374

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
673

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. What did the king in the story, "live for"? Hint

Jokes and joking.

Conquest of his enemies.

The favor of the queen.

His only son, the prince.

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Question 2 of 10

2. Why was the dwarf called "Hop-Frog"? Hint

He could leap high in the air due to his muscular legs.

He walked with a combination of a hop and a wriggling motion.

One of the king's favorite jokes involved a frog.

It isn't actually explained.

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Question 3 of 10

3. Hop-Frog and Trippetta (a beautiful, tiny girl) were abducted from where? Hint

France

An unnamed country

Transylvania

What was then known as Persia

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Question 4 of 10

4. Hop-Frog had a definite fondness for alcohol.

True

False

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Question 5 of 10

5. Why did Hop-Frog want revenge on the king and his court? Hint

The king pushed Trippetta and threw a goblet of wine in her face.

The king had slain Hop-Frog's parents.

The king favored Trippetta over him.

The king banished Trippetta to the dungeon for the crime of insolence.

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Question 6 of 10

6. What did Hop-Frog have a habit of doing when he became angry? Hint

Gnashing his teeth.

Cursing like a sailor.

Stomping his feet.

All three.

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Question 7 of 10

7. What did Hop-Frog suggest that the king and his ministers do at the big party, in order to scare the guests? Hint

Pretend that they had contracted a plague which had decimated the local population.

Dress up as a group of escaped ourang-outangs, all chained together.

Dress as werewolves and carry off the women.

Command the court wizard to set off a series of explosions throughout the castle.

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Question 8 of 10

8. How did Hop-Frog finally exact his revenge? Hint

He gave all the guests daggers and they slaughtered the king and his men in self-defense.

He hoisted the king and his ministers into the air and set them on fire.

He killed the king with a broken goblet.

He pushed Trippetta off a high battlement.

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Question 9 of 10

9. What finally became of Hop-Frog and Trippetta? Hint

Hop-Frog was banished from the castle and he married Trippetta.

It was assumed that they escaped together and went back to their country of origin.

Hop-Frog was hung for murder and Trippetta was imprisoned.

Hop-Frog was flung off the battlement from which he had flung Trippetta.

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Question 10 of 10

10. What other Poe story featured the same kind of animal that was represented prominently in "Hop-Frog"? Hint

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

"The Black Cat"

"Never Bet the Devil your Head"

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What did the king in the story, "live for"?

Answer: Jokes and joking.

"To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well were the surest road to his favor." A queen or a prince were not mentioned.

2. Why was the dwarf called "Hop-Frog"?

Answer: He walked with a combination of a hop and a wriggling motion.

Hop-Frog could not move quickly on the ground but could climb like a monkey due to his massive upper body strength.

3. Hop-Frog and Trippetta (a beautiful, tiny girl) were abducted from where?

Answer: An unnamed country

The narrator stated that he did not know where they came from...only that it was a barbarous little-known region.

4. Hop-Frog had a definite fondness for alcohol.

Answer: False

The king forced him to drink wine for his own amusement. Hop-Frog was "not fond of wine for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling."

5. Why did Hop-Frog want revenge on the king and his court?

Answer: The king pushed Trippetta and threw a goblet of wine in her face.

Hop-Frog and Trippetta were fast friends. When the king tried to make Hop-Frog drink wine, Trippetta intervened and the king threw the wine in her face.

6. What did Hop-Frog have a habit of doing when he became angry?

Answer: Gnashing his teeth.

It produced a "harsh, grating" sound and was first mistaken for the king's parrot sharpening its bill on the bars of its cage.

7. What did Hop-Frog suggest that the king and his ministers do at the big party, in order to scare the guests?

Answer: Dress up as a group of escaped ourang-outangs, all chained together.

The king thought it was a "capital" idea and that it would scare the women. Practical jokes were the king's favorite kind.

8. How did Hop-Frog finally exact his revenge?

Answer: He hoisted the king and his ministers into the air and set them on fire.

The king and his ministers were dressed in flammable costumes and Hop-Frog hoisted them up in the air with their chains and set fire to them with a torch. They were described as a "fetid, blackened, hideous, and indistinguishable mass."

9. What finally became of Hop-Frog and Trippetta?

Answer: It was assumed that they escaped together and went back to their country of origin.

They presumably lived happily ever after!

10. What other Poe story featured the same kind of animal that was represented prominently in "Hop-Frog"?

Answer: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" featured an escaped ourang-outang which actually stuffed a woman up a chimney feet first. Poe's spelling of "ourang-outang" differs from the modern version.

Source: Author srfield99

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