Discussing Edgar Allan Poe made me curious about Baltimore's literary history. With thanks to the Baltimore Literary Heritage Project, here are questions to test your knowledge. Keep score at home or respond in a comment. (We'll provide answers Wednesday and will randomly pick comments for a book giveaway. You don't have to score 100% to win.)

1. He is acknowledged as the creator of the detective story, thanks to stories about an amateur sleuth named C. Auguste Dupin. His name is recalled when Baltimore's pro football team plays.

2. His most famous work is a war-time poem originally called "Defence of Fort McHenry". He also had famous literary great-grandnephew (name him for bonus points).

3. Born into slavery, he learned to read in Baltimore. Once free, his writings and his North Star newspaper helped stoke the abolitionist movement.

4. She came to Baltimore as a maid, and lied about her age to attend high school here. Schooling exposed her intellect and she developed an anthropologist's love of folklore, becoming a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance.

5. He said his major literary influence was a bricklayer named Ike, and his hard-boiled mysteries became movie classics, with stars including Lana Turner, Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford. 

6. Born in Baltimore, she must have learned her manners here. They served her well, as she became American's leading authority for decades on do's and don't's.