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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Narrator claim is the most analytical game?
(a) Draughts.
(b) Crazy Eights.
(c) Chess.
(d) Poker.

2. What is the style of Dupin and the narrator's home?
(a) Roman.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Modern.
(d) Gothic.

3. Who answers the ad that Dupin puts up?
(a) A sailor.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A woman.
(d) A child.

4. To Dupin, what quality of the murder defies any motive?
(a) The gruesomeness.
(b) The fact that the victims were women.
(c) The lack of suspects.
(d) The fact that the murder is so mysterious.

5. Which body part of the older murder victim was falling off?
(a) Feet.
(b) Her body was cut entirely in half.
(c) Hands.
(d) Head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks through a translator at the court case for the murders?

2. What did each witness identify?

3. What is evidence of no forced entry into the Rue Morgue?

4. What has been taken from the Rue Morgue after the murders?

5. How does The Narrator generally feel toward Dupin?

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