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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. Who is Fortnoy?
2. In what month does the story begin?
3. When they investigate the room that faces Edmund's room, what do Edmund and Dupin find?
4. When Edward goes to the saloon to buy supplies for himself and Dupin, according to the posted sign, who is offering a reward for the location of Mrs. G. Rachett?
5. In Dupin and Throck's first meeting, what does Throck tell Dupin he has been hired to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do you think Poe chooses to go by the name of his fictional detective?
2. Based on the prologue, what do you think is the author's opinion of Poe as a writer?
3. Do you think the story would be as effective if it were set in a different time period?
4. What does the author accomplish in part one by having Dupin tell Edmund that Edmund already has all the facts he needs to solve the crime?
5. Do you think there is any significance to the author's choice of the name "Edmund"?
6. Why do you think the author sets up the prologue so that all of Edmund's female family members are missing?
7. How does the setting reflect Edmund's emotional state?
8. Why do you think the author decided to set up a mystery in the style of Edgar Allan Poe?
9. How do you think the character Dupin reflects the real-life Poe?
10. How do you think the novel would be different if there were no prologue?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What are the various ways in which real life and fiction intermingle in this story? What do you think the author is saying about the nature of realism and fantasy?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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