- 1. In what year was Edgar Allan Poe born?
A) 1909
B) 1809
C) 2009
D) 1709
- 2. What is the name of Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem about a bird?
A) The Blackbird
B) The Nightingale
C) The Crow
D) The Raven
- 3. What is the title of Edgar Allan Poe's famous detective story featuring C. Auguste Dupin?
A) The Fall of the House of Usher
B) The Tell-Tale Heart
C) The Cask of Amontillado
D) The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- 4. In which city did Edgar Allan Poe die?
A) Philadelphia
B) Baltimore
C) Boston
D) New York
- 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) Ligeia
C) The Black Cat
D) The Pit and the Pendulum
- 7. Poe is credited with popularizing which literary device often characterized by a story within a story?
A) Foreshadowing
B) Epiphany
C) Frame narrative
D) Flashback
- 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) To Helen
C) The Fall of the House of Usher
D) Annabel Lee
- 9. Which of the following is NOT a Poe short story about a person being buried alive?
A) The Fall of the House of Usher
B) Berenice
C) The Premature Burial
D) The Tell-Tale Heart
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