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Exploring the Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe

This quiz tests your knowledge on the life, works, and influences of Edgar Allan Poe, including his genres, personal history, and significant events.

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1 Beyond horror, Poe also wrote ________, humor tales, and hoaxes.

2 When did Edgar Allan Poe die?

3 [88] To that end, his fiction often included elements of popular pseudosciences such as ________[89] and physiognomy.

4 Other Poe landmarks include a building in the ________, where Poe temporarily lived when he first moved to New York.

5 [27] Poe decided to leave West Point by purposely getting ________.

6 [65] Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as "congestion of the brain" or "cerebral inflammation", common ________ for deaths from disreputable causes such as alcoholism.

7 ________ (1838) – Poe's only complete novel

8 How is Edgar Allan Poe described?

9 After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at ________, Poe parted ways with the Allans.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman, was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman.
  • William Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brother Edgar Allan Poe with Sarah Elmira Royster.
  • although the Park Theatre was considered the highest-class playhouse in New York, Edgar Allan Poe criticized it for being infested by rats.
  • in "Thou Art the Man", one of Edgar Allan Poe's (pictured) lesser-known detective stories, ventriloquism is used to expose a murderer.
  • the unsolved murder of Mary Rogers was fictionalized as "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Anne Lynch Botta (pictured) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to literary society at her receptions.
  • Knickerbocker Epes Sargent (pictured) wrote Velasco for Ellen Tree, only to have Edgar Allan Poe damn it with faint praise.
  • Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism.
  • Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story "Bon-Bon" features an amateur philosopher who meets a soul-eating devil.
  • Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story "The Business Man" using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats.
  • Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City.
  • Edgar Allan Poe's 1848 essay Eureka presaged the Big Bang theory and black holes.
  • "The Iron Shroud" by William Mudford influenced Edgar Allan Poe's writing of the "Pit and the Pendulum".
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