Edgar Allan Poe Video

Which type of story did Edgar Allen Poe typically write?

• comedy

• horror

• essay

• sci-fi

Edgar Allen Poe was born in what year?

• 1909

• 1809

• 1932

• 1991

All of the following is true of Poe's childhood EXCEPT:

• he was a foster child

• he began writing poetry around age 13

• his foster family was the Allen family

• he grew up in Shrieveport, Louisiana

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Which university did Edgar Allen Poe attend?

• Yale

• Harvard

• University of Virginia

• Virginia Commonwealth University

Edgar Allen Poe married .....

• his cousin

• a woman named Sandy

• someone twice his age

• at the age of 82

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Poe is credited with inventing which type of fiction

• comedy

• science fiction

• detective

• mathematical

Which of these is seen as Poe's most famous work?

• The Notebook

• The Ring

• The Raven

• The Waterboy

Poe's death was seen as odd for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• there is little evidence at all

• he was wearing someone else's clothes

• he was found on the streets of Baltimore

• he had gotten a tattoo of a lightning bolt on his forehead

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Edgar Allan Poe's stories often include:

• horror/suspense

• a character who is actually a ghost

• a sudden change of voice

• random jokes

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All in all, one thing that we can learn from the biography about Edgar Allan Poe is that he was

• old when he died

• very normal

• very odd and unique

• a huge Baltimore Ravens fan

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