BEING PREFORMED AT: Spencer/Rounds Performing Arts Theatre, Coffeyville Community College.
Coffeyville, Kansas
INFORMATION GATHERING ACTIVITIES
1. Read The Pit and the Pendulum, and become familiar with all vocabulary.
Link for text provided below.
2. Listen to the audio of The Pit and the Pendulum.
Link for audio provided below.
3. As a group watch the film The Pit and the Pendulum.
(Check this out from your instructor.)
QUESTIONS
Leader: Be sure that a copy of completed questions is handed in.
Poe Biography Questions
1. When was Poe born?
2. What did his mother do for a living?
3. What tragedy befell her, and how old was Poe when it happened
4. Who adopts Poe and what type of relationship do they have? (Hint: Read Poe�s
5. Letters to John Allan from the later part of 1831.)
6. What happened to Poe�s foster mother, and when?
7. What happened to Poe in regard to his first love?
8. Poe is considered the �Father of _________________� (a subgenre of Mystery).
9. What happened in Fordham, New York in 1847?
10. In what year did Poe die?
11. Where did he die?
12. Where is he buried?
13. What mystery surrounds his gravesite?
14. List at least three different theories about the death of Edgar Allan Poe?
Pit and Pendulum Questions
1. What exaggerations does the prisoner see?
2. What sort of visions has the prisoner experience?
3. Where does the prisoner fear he is?
4. What were the rumors about Toledo?
5. How does the prisoner measure his cell?
6. How does the prisoner discover the pit?
7. What condition follows the prisoner�s quenching his thirst?
8. What absorbs the prisoner�s interest?
9. What change has taken place?
10. What attracts the rats?
11. What is most frightening about the pendulum?
12. For what does the prisoner pray?
13. What is happening to the prisoner�s mind?
14. What lives even in the dungeon?
15. What actions are part of the prisoner�s plan?
16. Why is the prisoner free but not free?
17. What form does the rescue take?
Link for Reading The Pit
Link for Listening to The Pit
The Pit Links
Book Rags
Lit Summaries
Nextext
General Poe Information Links
Poe Resource
National Park Service
Poe Society of Baltimore
Poe Museum
Fun Activities
Battleship Game for The Pit Review
Literary Terms for Poe Game
Please do not limit yourself to just these resources. The internet and library are full of useful information!
Work hard and enjoy what you find!