Edgar Allan Poe
  • 1. In what year was Edgar Allan Poe born?
A) 1709
B) 1809
C) 1909
D) 2009
  • 2. What is the name of Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem about a bird?
A) The Blackbird
B) The Crow
C) The Raven
D) The Nightingale
  • 3. What is the title of Edgar Allan Poe's famous detective story featuring C. Auguste Dupin?
A) The Cask of Amontillado
B) The Tell-Tale Heart
C) The Fall of the House of Usher
D) The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • 4. In which city did Edgar Allan Poe die?
A) Philadelphia
B) New York
C) Baltimore
D) Boston
  • 5. Which literary device does Poe frequently use in his works to create a musical effect?
A) Simile
B) Alliteration
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Irony
  • 6. What was the title of Poe's only complete novel about a voyage to the South Pacific?
A) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
B) The Pit and the Pendulum
C) The Black Cat
D) Ligeia
  • 7. Poe is credited with popularizing which literary device often characterized by a story within a story?
A) Frame narrative
B) Epiphany
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) To Helen
B) Annabel Lee
C) The Bells
D) The Fall of the House of Usher
  • 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) Berenice
D) The Tell-Tale Heart
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