Edgar Allan Poe quiz
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Whose loss does the narrator of The Raven mourn?
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Which bird did Poe consider before choosing the raven?
Answer: parrot
Why: Poe wanted a bird that could talk without reasoning, and the raven did that while suiting the poem's dark tone better.
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Where does the Allan in Poe's name come from?
Answer: His foster father
Why: John Allan, a Richmond merchant who also traded tobacco, raised Poe without formally adopting him.
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Who wrote a sequel to Poe's novel Arthur Gordon Pym?
Answer: Jules Verne
Why: Verne's sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, came out in 1897, almost 60 years after Poe's novel.
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Which genre is Poe credited with inventing?
Answer: Detective fiction
Why: His detective, C. Auguste Dupin, solves cases by pure reasoning while an unnamed friend tells the story.
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Whose pet raven helped inspire The Raven?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Why: Grip also became the talking raven in Dickens's novel Barnaby Rudge, and the stuffed bird is now in a Philadelphia library.
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Which French poet translated Poe's tales?
Answer: Charles Baudelaire
Why: Mallarmé translated Poe's poems instead, and his 1875 French Raven came with illustrations by Manet.
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