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Short Answer Questions

1. The book's prologue is particularly engaging for its target audience of _____.

2. Where does Edmund take the man he encounters on the street at the beginning of the story?

3. What does Dupin find in the bank vault?

4. What promise does Sis make to Edmund before he leaves her alone in the room?

5. Where does Edmund go to buy food for himself and Sis?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the locked-room mystery engage the reader?

2. How do you think the character Dupin reflects the real-life Poe?



5. What is the significance of the fact that both Edmund and Dupin have an important person in their lives whom they call Sis?

6. Do you think Mrs. Whitman's breaking off of the engagement directly led to Poe's mysterious death a year later?

7. Do you think Poe is a good choice for a novel about a real life person? Why or why not?

8. Why do you think Dupin decides that his work is done after summing up the details of the solved mystery in Chapter 17?

9. Why do you think the author has Dupin tell Edmund that he has certain critical information, but refuses to share it with him?


Essay Topics

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think the characters frequently think they see ghosts throughout the novel? What do the ghosts symbolize? What is the significance of the fact that these characters generally realize immediately that ghosts don't really exist?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 13, Poe states that the evil in his writings symbolizes human fears. Having read this novel as well as works by Poe, do you agree? What do you think is the connection between evil and fear? What does Poe's connecting the two concepts tell us about his character?

Essay Topic 3

What do we learn about Poe from the style with which he approaches his courtship of Mrs. Whitman? Does he seem determined? Shy? Indifferent? How do you think this relates to the loss of his first wife?

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