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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does The Narrator generally feel toward Dupin?
(a) Envy.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Anger.

2. What did all the witnesses agree about the second voice they heard?
(a) It was foreign.
(b) It was gruff.
(c) It was a woman's voice.
(d) It was Spanish.

3. What is Dupin's one impossible scenario?
(a) A woman killed the victims.
(b) The murderer was an animal.
(c) The women were killed by a friend.
(d) The women killed each other.

4. How did the policeman describe the second voice he heard inside the Rue Morgue?
(a) Shrill.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Italian.
(d) Gruff.

5. What is Dupin's only luxury?
(a) Going to the opera.
(b) Books.
(c) Furniture.
(d) Board games.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dupin believe the police arrested the man they did?

2. Dupin's comments about the actor are a direct response to whose thoughts?

3. Who does Dupin believe has lost an animal?

4. What does Dupin say has the best chance of owning the animal he is looking for?

5. What makes the windows appear unopenable?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader know about The Narrator?

2. Describe the location where Madame L'Espanaye's body was found.

3. How might this short story have been considered controversial when it was written?

4. Why did Dupin place an ad in the paper?

5. What qualities does Dupin believe the killer has?

6. Describe the dead body that was found outside.

7. Why is Adolphe arrested for the murders?

8. Describe the interview that the laundress gave.

9. Describe the way the orangutan behaved after killing the women, according to the sailor.

10. Describe the tobacco salesman's relationship with the two murdered women.

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