Q 01/05

In which city was Edgar Allan Poe born in 1809?

A) Baltimore

B) Richmond

C) Boston

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

C) Boston

His mother left him a watercolour of the city inscribed to her little son Edgar, who should ever love the place of his birth.

Q 02/05

What was the profession of both of Poe's parents?

A) Actors

B) Printers

C) Schoolteachers

D) Merchants

Answer · why

A) Actors

His father abandoned the family in 1810 and his mother died of tuberculosis a year later.

Q 03/05

Poe took his middle name from the Richmond merchant who raised him. What was his foster father's name?

A) John Allan

B) James Allan

C) Thomas Allan

D) William Allan

Answer · why

A) John Allan

The Allans gave him their name but never formally adopted him.

Q 04/05

Poe left the University of Virginia after one year, chiefly because of what?

A) A duel

B) Gambling debts

C) Expulsion for drinking

D) A secret marriage

Answer · why

B) Gambling debts

He claimed John Allan had not sent enough money to register, buy books or furnish a room.

Q 05/05

Under what assumed name did Poe enlist in the US Army in 1827?

A) Henri Le Rennet

B) Arthur Gordon Pym

C) Quarles

D) Edgar A. Perry

Answer · why

D) Edgar A. Perry

He claimed to be 22 but was actually 18, and served at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor for five dollars a month.