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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When they investigate the room that faces Edmund's room, what do Edmund and Dupin find?
2. Where do the children live?
3. The first time Edmund and Dupin go to the saloon together, what do they learn?
4. What does Edmund call his sister?
5. In the prologue, where is the children's mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Edmund sees Dupin asleep, surrounded by empty liquor bottles, in Chapter Three, what conflict does it bring about it Edmund's thinking?
2. Why do you think the author decided to set up a mystery in the style of Edgar Allan Poe?
3. Do you think the story would be as effective if it were set in a different time period?
4. What can the reader deduce about the real-life Poe from part one of the novel?
5. How do you think the character Dupin reflects the real-life Poe?
6. How does the setting reflect Edmund's emotional state?
7. Why do you think the author chose not to reveal Sis's true name?
8. Why do you think the author sets up the prologue so that all of Edmund's female family members are missing?
9. How does the locked-room mystery engage the reader?
10. What is the significance of the fact that both Edmund and Dupin have an important person in their lives whom they call Sis?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Keeping in mind that this novel is a work of fiction, do you agree with Poe when he tells Edmund that Sis would have "lived longer" in his story than she could in reality? Do you think Poe himself has in a sense lived longer because of his presence in this novel?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Dupin/Poe tells Edmund that "lies have their own truth." Do you agree? Do you think this is the case only in fiction, or in real life as well?
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