- 1. In what year was Edgar Allan Poe born?
A) 1709
B) 2009
C) 1809
D) 1909
- 2. What is the name of Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem about a bird?
A) The Crow
B) The Nightingale
C) The Raven
D) The Blackbird
- 3. What is the title of Edgar Allan Poe's famous detective story featuring C. Auguste Dupin?
A) The Tell-Tale Heart
B) The Cask of Amontillado
C) The Murders in the Rue Morgue
D) The Fall of the House of Usher
- 4. In which city did Edgar Allan Poe die?
A) New York
B) Boston
C) Baltimore
D) Philadelphia
- 5. Which literary device does Poe frequently use in his works to create a musical effect?
A) Irony
B) Alliteration
C) Simile
D) Onomatopoeia
- 6. What was the title of Poe's only complete novel about a voyage to the South Pacific?
A) The Black Cat
B) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
C) Ligeia
D) The Pit and the Pendulum
- 7. Poe is credited with popularizing which literary device often characterized by a story within a story?
A) Epiphany
B) Frame narrative
C) Flashback
D) Foreshadowing
- 8. Which of Poe's works is often considered a hallmark of Gothic fiction due to its dark, mysterious setting and supernatural elements?
A) The Bells
B) Annabel Lee
C) The Fall of the House of Usher
D) To Helen
- 9. Which of the following is NOT a Poe short story about a person being buried alive?
A) The Premature Burial
B) The Fall of the House of Usher
C) The Tell-Tale Heart
D) Berenice
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