A&E Biography Video Notes Name:______

1. Edgar Allan Poe was one of ______siblings. 2. His mother Eliza Poe was a(n) ______(occupation). 3. Poe’s father abandoned his family when Poe was ______(age). 4. Poe’s mother died of ______. 5. Poe was adopted by ______and her husband, ______. 6. Poe’s step mother died of ______. 7. Poe thought women should be ______. 8. Poe attended college at ______. 9. Poe’s classmates couldn’t decide whether Poe would be a ______or a ______because he was equally talented. 10. Poe was an athletic individual but downplayed physical activity later in life saying, “Even a ______could do it.” 11. John Allan gave Poe enough money to get to college but not enough to pay for anything, as a result Poe ended racking up a debt of ______during his college years. 12. To avoid debtor’s prison, Poe ______. 13. Poe enlisted under this name: ______. 14. Poe was born in ______(city). 15. By the age of ______, Poe published two books of ______. 16. After his time in the army, Poe moved to ______to live with the Clemm family. 17. John Allan left ______(amount) to Poe in his will. 18. Poe ended up marrying ______(name). She was his ______(relation). 19. At the time of the marriage, she was ______and Poe was ______. 20. Poe was able to secure a meeting with President______for a government job but showed up drunk on the day of the meeting. 21. Poe is the father of ______(genre) stories, creating them. 22. People suspect that he created these because of the need for ______and ______in his life. 23. ______is another name for tuberculosis. 24. While singing, Virginia showed her first signs of ______. 25. ______(this story/poem) was Poe’s first real success. 26. Poe earned ______(amount) for The Raven. 27. Often during times of high stress or a succession of negative events, Poe would fall back to ______(this activity) to lighten the pain. 28. Poe wrote ______as a homage to his deceased wife Virginia. 29. Poe was engaged but never married to a few different women and wrote love letters to others, even proposing in a ______(location) 30. When on his way to share good news with his aunt, Poe disappeared. He was found a few days later, semi-conscious in a street in ______(city). 31. Poe was wearing ______clothing. 32. One of the theories on Poe’s death include it being a ______. 33. Poe’s last words in a hospital were, “God, ______my ______soul.” 34. Poe was alive during the ______century.