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The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe · Edgar Allan Poe
Whole Collection Quiz
Twenty questions across all the poems and the essay.
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Q1
of 20
What single word does the Raven speak?
A
Evermore
B
Lenore
C
Nevermore
D
Farewell
Q2
of 20
In what year was "The Raven" published?
A
1835
B
1849
C
1845
D
1827
Q3
of 20
Where does the speaker of "Annabel Lee" lie down "all the night-tide"?
A
Beneath her window
B
In the old churchyard
C
In her tomb by the sea
D
On the high white cliffs
Q4
of 20
In which month is "Ulalume" set?
A
December
B
June
C
March
D
October
Q5
of 20
Which name belongs to a dead woman mourned in two of these poems?
A
Lenore
B
Helen
C
Annie
D
Eulalie
Q6
of 20
Who is the woman in "The Sleeper"?
A
Ligeia
B
Irene
C
Ulalume
D
Psyche
Q7
of 20
Which poem is built from four kinds of bell?
A
Ulalume
B
The Bells
C
Eldorado
D
Lenore
Q8
of 20
Which poem calls Science a vulture "whose wings are dull realities"?
A
The Valley of Unrest
B
Sonnet—To Science
C
Spirits of the Dead
D
The City in the Sea
Q9
of 20
Who is Israfel?
A
A fallen king
B
A dead bride
C
An angel of song
D
A wandering knight
Q10
of 20
In "Eldorado", what happens to the knight as he searches?
A
He grows old
B
He finds the gold
C
He loses his horse
D
He forgets his song
Q11
of 20
Which poem pictures grains of golden sand slipping into the sea?
A
A Dream within a Dream
B
The City in the Sea
C
Spirits of the Dead
D
The Valley of Unrest
Q12
of 20
In "Dreamland", where has the traveller just come from?
A
The valley of Eldorado
B
The city in the sea
C
The ruins of old Rome
D
An ultimate dim Thule
Q13
of 20
What does Poe argue a poem should be short enough to do?
A
Be read at a single sitting
B
Be learned by heart in a day
C
Fit on a magazine page
D
Be sung to a common tune
Q14
of 20
Which famous long poem does Poe say is "at least one-half" prose?
A
The Faerie Queene
B
The Iliad
C
Paradise Lost
D
Childe Harold
Q15
of 20
Who arranged these poems into Poems of Later Life, Manhood and Youth?
A
Edgar Allan Poe
B
John H. Ingram
C
Rufus Griswold
D
Virginia Poe
Q16
of 20
Whose death in 1847 is often linked to "Annabel Lee" and "Ulalume"?
A
Poe's mother, Eliza
B
His foster-mother, Frances
C
His brother, Henry
D
Poe's wife, Virginia
Q17
of 20
In "The Haunted Palace", what do the "two luminous windows" stand for?
A
The ears
B
The eyes
C
The lips
D
The hands
Q18
of 20
Which poem ends with angels declaring the hero of the tragedy?
A
The Conqueror Worm
B
The Haunted Palace
C
The City in the Sea
D
Spirits of the Dead
Q19
of 20
Which poem begins "From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were"?
A
Romance
B
The Lake
C
A Dream
D
Alone
Q20
of 20
Why does Poe say he made the night of "The Raven" stormy?
A
Because he wrote it in a storm
B
To make the lover seem half mad
C
To hide the sound of the bird tapping
D
To explain why the bird seeks shelter