The Poe-Poe
The Devil & Tom Walker
The Minister's Black Veil
Misc
Fall of the House of Usher
100
This is the disease that haunted Poe's family.
What is tuberculosis?
100
The trees in the forest represent this.
What are the souls of the village that the devil has claimed?
100
This is the mood of the townspeople as they enter church at the start of the story.
What is happy and cheerful?
100
In Devil and Tom Walker, who originally buries his treasure in the forest?
Captain Kidd
100
This is why the narrator comes to the Usher estate.
What is Roderick Usher writes him a letter describing his condition?
200
Quoth the raven,__________.
What is nevermore?
200
The evidence that the author gives you proving that Tom Walker and his wife are extremely cheap and greedy people.
What is their horse was starving so bad his ribs were showing?
200
The first sermon that Rev. Hooper gives in the story is on this topic.
What is secret sin?
200
In Minister's Black Veil, this is the only person to stay beside Rev Hooper until the end.
Who is Elizabeth?
200
The narrator of the story is initially bothered by what?
The gloominess of the outside of the house.
300
This is the Poe story that influenced the Saw movies.
What is the Pit and the Pendulum?
300
What the devil does to Tom Walker when they first meet.
What is leaves his mark on his forehead?
300
In addition to a Gothic tale, The Minister's Black Veil is also this type of story.
What is an allegory?
300
The Devil and Tom Walker is an example of this type of legend.
What is the Faust Legend?
300
This is how Roderick Usher describes his condition.
What is an ancient family evil that has infected him?
400
The Raven represents this.
What is uncontrollable grielf/death?
400
This is how Tom Walker knows his wife is dead after trying to deal with the devil.
What is he finds her heart and liver tied up in a tree?
400
Rev Hooper only removed his veil at this point in the story.
What is when he looked upon a corpse?
400
In the Raven, this is why the word "nevermore" is significant.
What is every time the Raven says it, the meaning changes?
400
This is the odd thing about Madeline when she was in the coffin.
What is her skin was blushing a rosy red?
500
This is the element of Gothic Literature that Poe focused on the most in his stories.
What is madness/insanity of the mind?
500
This is what Tom Walker tried to do to get out of his deal with the devil.
What is all of a sudden going to church religiously and always keeping a bible on him?
500
The mirror in the story represents this.
What is the revelation of secret sin?
500
Tom Walker's occupation.
What is a usurer?
500
This is how we know that the house is actually alive and connected to the Usher family.
What is when Madeline and Roderick die the house "dies" and collapses with them?
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