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4. Why is Edmund delayed in returning home to Sis?

5. An old man asks
for directions.

6. How does Edmund meet Auguste Dupin?

7. The run into each other outside while Edmund is looking for Sis.

8. How does Edmund plan to “test” Mr. Dupin?

9. Edmund plans to follow Mr. Dupin to be sure that he goes to Ms
Edmund plans to follow Mr. Dupin to be sure that he goes to Ms. Whitman’s house.

10. What is the story behind Edmund’s father and stepfather?

11. Edmund’s father died, and his stepfather abandoned them and stole his mother’s money.

12. Ultimately, where does Edmund find Sis?

13. Edmund finds Sis on the Sunrise

14. What task did Mr. Dupin ask Edmund to do first?

15. Deliver a letter to #88, Ms. Whitman.

16. Why is Mr. Dupin convinced that Sis is dead?

17. His Sis is dead too.

18. Who does Mr. Dupin see in the cemetery?

19. Edmund’s mum.

20. What did Edmund read about in Mr. Dupin’s notebook?

21. He read about death, and Edmund’s story.

22. Who attacks Mr. Dupin?

23. Mr. Ratchett

24. What book has Sis been reading?

25. Hansel and Gretel

26. How does Mr. Dupin think Sis got out of the tenement?

27. She walked across a plank through the window to the tenement next door.

28. What did Mr. Peterson and Mr. Ratchett do with Sis?

29. They kidnapped her and made her steal the gold from the bank.

30. What evidence links Sis to the gold theft?

31. A pearl button from her shoe and an air vent through which only a child could fit.

32. How does Sis escape
from Mr. Peterson
and Mr. Ratchett?

33. She jumps from the Sunrise and swims to Edmund.

34. How long had Aunty been gone before Edmund left to buy food?

35. A few days.

36. What does Mr. Dupin learn at the daguerreotype studio?

37. Aunty and Mum are twins.

38. Why is it important that Edmund noticed that the dress on the dead body was not Aunty’s?

39. It suggests that either Aunty or Mum is still alive.

40. When Edmund arrives back home, what does he find missing out of Aunty Pru’s trunk?

41. A picture of Aunty Pru and Mum.

42. How did Mr. Ratchett learn of Aunty’s arrival in Providence?

43. The wanted poster & Mr. Poley’s gossip at the bank.

44. Which weaknesses cause problems for Poe?

45. Drinking, thinking about death, & wanting to make a story out of Edmund’s life.

46. Mr. Dupin want Edmund to call him Poe?
Why does
Mr. Dupin want Edmund to call him Poe?

47. He is able to write his story now.

48. Why will Poe no longer help Edmund?

49. He has no use for Edmund now that he has solved the mystery.

50. Why does Edmund take Mr. Poe’s notebook?

51. He destroys Poe’s story because it ends in Sis’s death.

52. What happened to
Poe’s wife?
(in real life)

53. Poe’s wife, Sis, died
of tuberculosis.

54. Whose body was found in the water at the docks?

55. Aunty’s

56. What was found in the tenement across from Edmund’s?

57. A pearl button.

58. Why did Mum come to America?

59. To get her money back from Mr. Ratchett and divorce him.

60. What is the name of Ms. Whitman’s mother?

61. Mrs. Powers

62. What was the original name of the character in Poe’s story?

63. Edgar

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