StudentsFact or Fiction: A quiz for debunking myths!Your Score: 0/13
1. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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2. Poe was from Baltimore, Maryland.
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3. Poe was just a month shy of turning 3 when his mother passed away in Richmond.
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4. Poe was fostered by the Allan family but never formally adopted by them.
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5. Poe’s mother and father both died performing on stage in the tragic Richmond Theater fire of 1811.
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6. Edgar Allan Poe not only grew up in Richmond, Virginia, but he also got his first writing gig here at the Southern Literary Messenger.
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7. Poe studied abroad at Stoke Newington while he was living overseas with the Allan family.
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8. While attending UVA Poe received very good grades in all of his classes but, due to unpaid fees, was not allowed to return to the University.
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9. Poe was formally discharged from West Point for arriving at roll call in the nude.
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10. Poe’s mother, brother, and wife all died of tuberculosis at age 24.
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11. Edgar Allan Poe was the father of Detective Fiction, not Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote the Sherlock Holmes series.
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12. Edgar Allan Poe was not famous for his literary works until 20 years after his death in 1849.
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13. Edgar Allan Poe received a meager $15 for his most notorious poem, “The Raven,” at the time that it was first published.
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