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Edgar Allan's Poetry Trivia Quiz

This is about some poems (no tales) by Edgar Allan Poe. See how familiar you are with his work... Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by PearlQ19. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
PearlQ19

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
82,225

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
693

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Let's start out easy: How does this line end: "Quoth the Raven..."?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 2 of 10

2. "The Raven" has 18 stanzas. How many of them do NOT end with this famous word? Hint

3. From which poem is this quote: "How SHALL the ritual, then, be read? - the requiem how be sung - By you - by yours, the evil eye, - by yours, the slanderous tongue - That did to death the innocence that died and died so young?"?

Answer: (One Word... think of the lady from "The Raven")

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Question 4 of 10

4. Inspired by a line from the Koran, Poe wrote a poem about an angel "whose heart-strings are a lute". Which angel? Hint

Israfel

Uriel

Azrael

Nathaniel

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Question 5 of 10

5. Another very famous poem is this one. Can you finish the opening lines: "It was many and many a year ago - In a kingdom by the sea - That a maiden there lived whom you may know - By the name of..."?

Answer: (Two Words, A. L.)

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Question 6 of 10

6. "A Valentine" (1850): How can you find the lady's name in the poem? Hint

Read the first letter in the first line, the second in the second, and so on

Read the last letter in each line

Read the first letter in each line

Read the last letter in the first line, the second-to-last in the second, and so on

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Question 7 of 10

7. A knight spent his life searching for something he never found. Then he meets a "pilgrim shadow" who tells him where to go. What was the knight looking for? Hint

The Holy Grail

Atlantis

Gilead

Eldorado

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Question 8 of 10

8. "The Sleeper" (1845) has been written before, in 1831. What was its title back then? Hint

The Sleeper

Irene

Lethe

The Dead Who Groaned Within

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Question 9 of 10

9. Like in "A Valentine", also in "An Enigma" (1850), a name is hidden. To whom was this riddle dedicated? Hint

Frances Sargent Osgood

Sarah Anna Lewis

Marie Louise Shew

Helen Dinah George

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Question 10 of 10

10. "The Raven" again: In which month does the story take place? Hint

January

December

November

October

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Let's start out easy: How does this line end: "Quoth the Raven..."?

Answer: Nevermore

The "ominous" bird's answer to every question. Presumably Poe's most famous poem, published in 1845.

2. "The Raven" has 18 stanzas. How many of them do NOT end with this famous word?

Answer: 7

The first seven stanzas all end with "nothing more", except for the second one ("for evermore").

Answer: Lenore

"Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!" A very famous beginning. Poe wrote the first version of "Lenore" in 1831, by then it was called "A Paean". A later version is from 1843, and the final version was published in 1845.

4. Inspired by a line from the Koran, Poe wrote a poem about an angel "whose heart-strings are a lute". Which angel?

Answer: Israfel

"And the angel Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures." - Koran. Another poem from 1845, though there also exists an earlier version from 1831.

Answer: Annabel Lee

Published in 1850.

6. "A Valentine" (1850): How can you find the lady's name in the poem?

Answer: Read the first letter in the first line, the second in the second, and so on

"Cease trying! You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you CAN do." The name is Frances Sargent Osgood.

7. A knight spent his life searching for something he never found. Then he meets a "pilgrim shadow" who tells him where to go. What was the knight looking for?

Answer: Eldorado

"'Over the Mountains - Over the Moon - Down the Valley of the Shadow - Ride, boldly ride', the Shade replied - 'If you seek for Eldorado!'" - 1850.

8. "The Sleeper" (1845) has been written before, in 1831. What was its title back then?

Answer: Irene

These two versions differ from each other a lot, more than e.g. the three versions of "Lenore". Read the old version if you don't know it yet - it's great!

9. Like in "A Valentine", also in "An Enigma" (1850), a name is hidden. To whom was this riddle dedicated?

Answer: Sarah Anna Lewis

Frances Sargent Osgood is the lady from "A Valentine". I made up the name Helen Dinah George, though there is a poem called "To Helen". This Helen's death also inspired Poe to write "Lenore".

10. "The Raven" again: In which month does the story take place?

Answer: December

"Ah distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December..."

Source: Author PearlQ19

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