Chapters 8 & 9

Chapter 8

Notes:
Mrs Powers talks to Mr Arnold they speak of Mr Arnold with Mrs Whitman instead of Poe.
Edmund finds a note in code on the floor at Mrs Whitman’s .
Mrs Whitman asks about Mr Dupins drinking and sends a message with Edmund meet her at 3:30 at the graveyard Church St entrance.
Mr Peterson is at the bank
Mr Poley is the boss at the bank
Poe goes into the bank
Finds a button and some string …the air shaft must be the way the robber got in
The Gold came in by boat in the night
Study Questions
1. visit Mrs. Whitman
2. Mr Arnold and Mrs. Powers
3. The man she is supposed to marry and her mother
4. a piece of paper with odd writing on it.
5. never to drink again
6. if he is drinking
7. come to the graveyard at 3:30
8. to learn about the robbery
9. a white button
10. no grown person would fit
11. he faints
12. PREDICT

Test Questions Chapter 8: “A Perfect Tomb”
1.Edmund overhears the conversation between __________ and ___________ when he is at Mrs. Whitman’s house.
a.Mrs Powers and Mr Arnold *
b.Mrs. Whitman and Catherine
c.Mr Poley and Mrs Ratchett
d.Two strangers
2.All of the following clues were found in the bank vault EXCEPT:
a.A scrap of paper *
b.A bit of string
c.An air shaft in the ceiling
d.A white button
3.Which of the following was found at Mrs. Whitman’s house? :
a.A light hair wig
b.A coded message *
c.A white button
d.A portrait of Aunty and Mum


Chapter 9

Notes
Edmund looks at Dupin’s notebook
Peterson the young accountant has white hair/
Someone broke into the room and into Aunty’s trunk (with a key) they took a drawing of Aunty and Mum.
Dupin is drunk and goes to the clothier on Wickendon St.
Clerk tells a story of a man who was having a coat made and ran off when a beggar boy came in (Edmund)
Mr. Rachett is the man in the clothier.
Dupin is getting married.
Throck was following Dupin
Dupin calls himself Edward Grey
Rachett knows Peterson Rachett left a message for him …a note (urgent)He reads it later and says “at the hotel”
Peterson wants to be an inspector. (lives in the Hotel American House)

Study Questions :
1. Dupin is gone/notebook
2. an investigator
3. Throck
4. everything is in shambles
5. A picture of Aunty and Mum
6. Mr Rachett
7. He has news of Sis
8. Predict

Test questions:Chapter 9 “News of Sis”
1.What does Edmund discover is missing from his room?
a.The key to the loo
b.Mr. Dupin is missing
c.A portrait of Aunty and Mum *
d.A portrait of Edmund and Sis

2.Mr. Peterson receives a note from Mr. Ratchett. We know that Mr. Ratchett is:
a.The man who left the clothier’s shop when Edmund came in
b.Peterson’s boss at the Providence bank
c.Edmund’s stepfather
d.Both a & c *