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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. Why are the children alone at the beginning of the story?
2. What street does Edmund live on?
3. The prologue introduces the reader to all of the following EXCEPT _____.
4. Who is Fortnoy?
5. When they investigate the room that faces Edmund's room, what do Edmund and Dupin find?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the absence of adults in the Prologue?
2. What does it reveal about Dupin's character when he tells Edmund in Chapter Two, "There is a difference between what happens and what we would like to have happen"?
3. What is the significance of Edmund's direct accusation, in Chapter Nine, that Dupin has abandoned him?
4. How does the setting reflect Edmund's emotional state?
5. What do you think is Dupin's primary motivation for helping Edmund?
6. How does the locked-room mystery engage the reader?
7. Why do you think the author decided to set up a mystery in the style of Edgar Allan Poe?
8. Why do you think the author sets up the prologue so that all of Edmund's female family members are missing?
9. Why do you think Dupin is so obsessed with death?
10. Based on the prologue, what do you think is the author's opinion of Poe as a writer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do you characterize Dupin/Poe's crime-solving methods? Do you think they are effective? Use specific details from the novel to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
How many mysteries are there in this novel? How do they overlap? Analyze how the clues for solving each mystery are necessary for solving the others.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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