1. What exaggerations does the prisoner see?

2. What sorts of visions has the prisoner experienced?

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. What do the rats do?

17. Why is the prisoner free but not free?

18. What form does the rescue take?