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Is it preferable to design a story so that the inciting incident only evokes one major dramatic question in the mind of the audience?

Dec 11, 2012

Is it preferable to design a story so that the inciting incident only evokes one major dramatic question in the mind of the audience? What if the inciting incident raises multiple questions? Is that good or bad? Would it diffuse the focus of the audience's interest, or could it amplify their curiosity? For example, say our inciting incident is that our protagonist sees a woman who is the spitting image of his long dead lover. Wouldn't that raise multiple questions like, is she really dead? Is he hallucinating? Will they be re-united? Etc. Does the story have to focus on just one question to be good?