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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. When Edmund and Mrs. Whitman first meet, where does Mrs. Whitman tell Edmund to have Dupin meet her?
(a) At the docks.
(b) At the tavern.
(c) At the courthouse.
(d) At the cemetery behind her house.

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

3. When did Poe's wife die?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1847.

4. What does Dupin learn at the portrait studio?
(a) Edmund's mother and aunt are twins.
(b) Edmund's mother and aunt look nothing alike.
(c) Edmund's mother and aunt both resemble Edmund's sister.
(d) Edmund's mother and aunt are the same person.

5. What is on the scrap of paper Edmund finds in Mrs. Whitman's house?
(a) It is a message from Edmund's sister.
(b) It is a message to Dupin.
(c) It is a message to Mrs. Whitman.
(d) It is unreadable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the style of the novel mimic?

2. What does Poe believe when he first sees Edmund with his mother?

3. What does Dupin use to decipher the encoded message Edmund found at Mrs. Whitman's house?

4. What was Poe's relationship to his father?

5. At the end, what does Edmund come to realize about Poe's agenda?

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