Edgar Allan Poe Quiz – Book Quizzes Online

1. In The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe’s narrator accused his victim of having what kind of an eye?

 Penguin

 Budgie

 Vulture

 

2. Complete the title of Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel, ‘The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym …’ ?

 of Nantucket

 of Phuket

 of Deep Pocket

 

3. What was notable about ‘The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’?

 It was the first detective fiction story

 It was left unfinished at Poe’s death

 It was Poe’s only completed novel

 

4. What was the name of the black cat in Edgar Allan Poe’s story of the same name?

 Uranus

 Pluto

 Neptune

 

5. Who asked, “Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?”?

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 Charles Dickens

 Wilkie Collins

 

6. In The House of Usher, what was the name of the Usher Poe’snarrator visited?

 Roderick

 Ralph

 Reginald

 

7. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum is a short horror story about torture during …?

 The War of Spanish Succession

 The Spanish Inquisition

 The War on Terror

 

8. How old was Edgar Allan Poe’s cousin when they married?

 Seventeen

 Fifteen

 Thirteen

 

9. In which of the following cities did Edgar Allan Poe go to boarding school?

 New York

 London

 Paris

 

10. Who wrote a biography of Edgar Allan Poe shortly after Poe’s death depicting him as a drug-crazed loon?

 Rufus Sewell

 Rufus Wainwright

 Rufus Griswold

 

 

Answers to the Edgar Allan Poe Quiz:

1.Vulture 2. of Nantucket 3. first detective fiction 4. Pluto 5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 6. Roderick 7. The Spanish Inquisition 8. Thirteen 9. London 10. Rufus Griswold