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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. The prologue introduces the reader to all of the following EXCEPT _____.
(a) A missing mother and aunt.
(b) The novel's's setting.
(c) Edmund and his sister.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

2. As he leaves the bank, what does Dupin tell Peterson his name is?
(a) Edmund Grey.
(b) Edward Grey.
(c) Edgar Grey.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

3. As Edmund is spying on Dupin near the cemetery, whom does he see emerge from the Hotel American House and enter Mrs. Whitman's house?
(a) Peterson.
(b) Throck.
(c) Rachett.
(d) Fortnoy.

4. At the clothier's shop, what does the large man do when he sees Edmund?
(a) Rushes out of the store.
(b) Warns him to stay away from Dupin.
(c) Offers to buy him a coat.
(d) Ignores him.

5. How do the kidnappers plan to use Edmund's sister?
(a) As a seamstress.
(b) As a servant.
(c) As an accomplice.
(d) As a bargaining tool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Peterson live?

2. How much money does Edmund have at the beginning of the story?

3. What is lost from the ship besides the two men aboard?

4. When Dupin identifies Rachett as Edmund's step-father, what does Edmund tell him about the reason his mother came to America?

5. When he returns to the cemetery to find Dupin, who does Edmund see?

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