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. .