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  A story by Edgar Allan Poe? see if you know the answer
Answered: 5327 times
Correct: 4769 times (85.9%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 558 times (10.1%)
Skipped: 225 times (4.1%)
  In The fall of the House of Usher and other stories by Edgar Allan Poe what is the name of Roderick Usher's sister? see if you know the answer
Answered: 305 times
Correct: 226 times (50.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 79 times (17.8%)
Skipped: 140 times (31.5%)
  In The fall of the House of Usher and other stories by Edgar Allan Poe, what did the narrator notice when he helped Roderick bring his sister into the tomb? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1047 times
Correct: 668 times (45.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 379 times (25.6%)
Skipped: 431 times (29.2%)
  In The fall of the House of Usher and other stories by Edgar Allan Poe, what is the name of the poem sung by Roderick? see if you know the answer
Answered: 234 times
Correct: 99 times (24.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 135 times (34.0%)
Skipped: 163 times (41.1%)
  In The fall of the House of Usher and other stories by Edgar Allan Poe, what strange occurence happened while the narrator read to Roderick? see if you know the answer
Answered: 986 times
Correct: 592 times (39.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 394 times (26.5%)
Skipped: 503 times (33.8%)
  In The fall of the House of Usher and other stories by Edgar Allan Poe, what is the relationship of the narrator to Roderick and Madeline Usher? see if you know the answer
Answered: 905 times
Correct: 385 times (27.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 520 times (36.8%)
Skipped: 508 times (36.0%)
  First Lines
Which of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories begins with the following line: "I was sick, sick unto death..." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 271 times
Correct: 80 times (20.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 191 times (49.4%)
Skipped: 116 times (30.0%)
  In Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Black Cat, what is the cat's name? see if you know the answer
Answered: 285 times
Correct: 165 times (37.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 120 times (27.5%)
Skipped: 151 times (34.6%)
  In Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart, what is it about the old man that turned the narrator's blood cold? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1158 times
Correct: 776 times (50.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 382 times (25.1%)
Skipped: 366 times (24.0%)
  In Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Gold Bug, where was the beetle that the narrator and Jupiter were looking for? see if you know the answer
Answered: 196 times
Correct: 127 times (35.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 69 times (19.3%)
Skipped: 162 times (45.3%)
  How did Poe and Annabel Lee love? Edgar Allan Poe see if you know the answer
Answered: 297 times
Correct: 223 times (57.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 74 times (19.2%)
Skipped: 89 times (23.1%)
  Edgar Allan Poe is often credited with having invented detective fiction. Which of his works is considered the first detective story? see if you know the answer
Answered: 299 times
Correct: 221 times (66.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 78 times (23.3%)
Skipped: 36 times (10.7%)
  "True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story"

... is the beginning of Edgar Allan Poe's ... 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 488 times
Correct: 349 times (64.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 139 times (25.8%)
Skipped: 51 times (9.5%)
  In Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart, to the eye of what bird does the narrator liken the old man's eye? see if you know the answer
Answered: 273 times
Correct: 163 times (47.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 110 times (31.7%)
Skipped: 74 times (21.3%)
  Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories" is about the torments endured by a prisoner during which period in history? see if you know the answer
Answered: 5568 times
Correct: 4496 times (63.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1072 times (15.2%)
Skipped: 1501 times (21.2%)
How much money did [a:Edgar Allan Poe|5756|Edgar Allan Poe|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183237044p2/5756.jpg] receive for his short story [b:Ligeia|419520|Ligeia|Edgar Allan Poe|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174584969s/419520.jpg|408663], published in 1838 by the American Museum Magazine? How much money did Edgar Allan Poe receive for his short story Ligeia, published in 1838 by the American Museum Magazine?
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Answered: 338 times
Correct: 114 times (16.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 224 times (33.2%)
Skipped: 336 times (49.9%)
  In Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, there is "a pallid bust of" whom above the chamber door? see if you know the answer
Answered: 3436 times
Correct: 1395 times (33.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 2041 times (48.8%)
Skipped: 747 times (17.9%)
  In 1840, Edgar Allan Poe published his intentions to begin a literary journal called what? see if you know the answer
Answered: 399 times
Correct: 139 times (18.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 260 times (34.9%)
Skipped: 345 times (46.4%)
  How old was Virginia Clemm, when Edgar Allan Poe married her? see if you know the answer
Answered: 2775 times
Correct: 1541 times (42.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1234 times (33.9%)
Skipped: 862 times (23.7%)
  Who is the creator of literary detective Sherlock Holmes? see if you know the answer
Answered: 448 times
Correct: 437 times (93.4%)
Difficulty: very easy
Incorrect: 11 times (2.4%)
Skipped: 20 times (4.3%)
  If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry containing the following tale?

"On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slanting,
I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.
Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,
(He) was talking to a Raven perched above the chamber door.
(...)

Still the Raven never fluttered, standing stock-still as he uttered,
In a voice that schrieked and sputtered, his two cents' worth --
'Nevermore.'

While this dirge the birdbrain kept up, oh, so silently I crept up,
Then I crouched and quickly leapt up, pouncing on the feathered bore.
Soon he was a heap of plumage, and a little blood and gore --
Only this and not much more." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 282 times
Correct: 248 times (77.7%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 34 times (10.7%)
Skipped: 37 times (11.6%)
  "The Haunted Dolls' House" is a ghost story by whom? see if you know the answer
Answered: 170 times
Correct: 76 times (28.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 94 times (34.9%)
Skipped: 99 times (36.8%)
  "The Hanged Man's Bride" is a ghost story by whom? see if you know the answer
Answered: 151 times
Correct: 45 times (17.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 106 times (41.2%)
Skipped: 106 times (41.2%)
  "__________ was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. _________ signed it. And _________'s name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.

Old _________ was as dead as a door-nail."

This is the beginning of ... 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 648 times
Correct: 372 times (49.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 276 times (37.0%)
Skipped: 97 times (13.0%)
The opening line. "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, ....." is from what short story? [a:Edgar Allan Poe|5756|Edgar Allan Poe|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183237044p2/5756.jpg] The opening line. "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, ....." is from what short story?
Edgar Allan Poe 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 258 times
Correct: 189 times (55.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 69 times (20.4%)
Skipped: 80 times (23.7%)
  What is the first line in Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, The Raven? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1546 times
Correct: 1390 times (84.8%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 156 times (9.5%)
Skipped: 94 times (5.7%)
  Edgar Allan PoeWhere was Edgar A. Poe born? see if you know the answer
Answered: 191 times
Correct: 72 times (29.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 119 times (48.4%)
Skipped: 55 times (22.4%)
Modern mystery fiction: Although the true origin of this form of storytelling remains unknown, the first piece of mystery fiction is generally recognized as Modern mystery fiction: Although the true origin of this form of storytelling remains unknown, the first piece of mystery fiction is generally recognized as see if you know the answer
Answered: 233 times
Correct: 186 times (66.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 47 times (16.9%)
Skipped: 45 times (16.2%)
  Who penned the oft-quoted phrase "The horror!"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 587 times
Correct: 322 times (42.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 265 times (35.2%)
Skipped: 165 times (21.9%)
Which one of these ist NOT a TALE by [a:Edgar Allan Poe|5756|Edgar Allan Poe|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183237044p2/5756.jpg]? Which one of these ist NOT a TALE by Edgar Allan Poe? see if you know the answer
Answered: 353 times
Correct: 100 times (15.2%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 253 times (38.5%)
Skipped: 304 times (46.3%)
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