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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: Something About Edgar Allan Poe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dupin see from the bell tower?
(a) Edmund's home.
(b) The docks.
(c) The bank.
(d) The cemetery.

2. What were the circumstances of Poe's relationship to his mother?
(a) She died when he was three years old.
(b) She died in childbirth.
(c) She abandoned him when he was a teenager.
(d) She abandoned him shortly after his birth.

3. Who was the other woman Poe courted?
(a) Margaret Jane Whitman.
(b) Helen Sarah Whitman.
(c) Sarah Helen Whitman.
(d) Jane Margaret Whitman.

4. When Poe arrives at the scene where Edmund is trying to rescue his sister, how does he say he figured out the meaning of the decoded message?
(a) Using one of his stories.
(b) Throck figured it out first.
(c) While drinking.
(d) In a dream.

5. What does Edmund bring with him to rescue his sister?
(a) Poe's gun.
(b) Poe's knife.
(c) Throck's gun.
(d) A kitchen knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which fictional detective did Poe's writings influence?

2. What does Edmund read in Dupin's notebook at the tavern?

3. What does seeing himself in Edmund lead Poe to do?

4. What does Poe tell Edmund about his sister at the end of the story?

5. In what year does the story take place?

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