Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Masque of the Red Death
The Tell-Tale Heart
100

The name of Poe's most famous poem

The Raven

100

The first cat's name

Pluto

100

The type of drink "Amontillado" is

Sherry, wine
100

This is found under the stranger's habiliments

Nothing

100

This is the reason the narrator kills the old man

His Evil Eye

200

Poe had a lifelong problem with this, the "family curse"

Alcoholism

200

This is how the narrator kills the cat

Hangs him from a tree

200

The ironic name of Montresor's victim

Fortunato

200

The prince's name

Prospero

200

Of the narrator's senses, this one was most acute

Hearing

300

Poe's stepfather John Allan left this to Poe in his will

Nothing

300

This behavior causes the shift in the narrator's temperament

Intemperance (drinking, alcoholism)

300

The season during which the story takes place

Carnival

300

The amount of time it takes for the Red Death to kill someone

Half an hour

300

The narrator hides the old man's body here

Under the floorboards

400

The name of Poe's cousin and wife

Virginia

400

The location from which the narrator tells his story

A felon's cell (prison)

400

Montresor sits on this while he listens to his victim's screams

A pile of bones
400

The number of friends the prince has housed in his abbey

A thousand

400

The readers' inability to trust everything he says makes him this kind of narrator

Unreliable

500

By the time he was 20, Poe had lost three of these

Mother figures

500

The narrator's pets included "birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small ______, and a cat."

Monkey

500

The number of years the body has remained undiscovered

50 (half a century)

500

The color of the fourth (and middle) room

Orange
500

Twice the sound of the heartbeat is compared to the sound a watch makes when enveloped in this

Cotton