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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Throck ask Edmund about Poe?
(a) If he is looking for Edmund's sister.
(b) If he is a drunkard.
(c) If he is getting the reward money for finding Edward's aunt.
(d) If he is getting the reward money for finding Edward's mother.

2. What does another of the notices say?
(a) Arnold resides at the Hotel American House.
(b) Arnold is demanding a ransom for Edmund's mother.
(c) Arnold can be reached at the Providence Bank.
(d) Arnold is demanding a ransom for Edmund's sister.

3. What does Poe believe when he first sees Edmund with his mother?
(a) He believes that Edmund's mother is a ghost.
(b) He believes that Edmund's mother is his aunt.
(c) He believes the characters he's writing about have come to life.
(d) He is shocked that Edmund's mother is alive.

4. Why does Poe believe he will not marry Mrs. Whitman at the end of the novel?
(a) He believes she has lost interest in him.
(b) Too many people oppose their union.
(c) He has lost interest.
(d) It doesn't fit into his story.

5. What does one of the newspaper notices say?
(a) Peterson can be reached at the Providence Bank.
(b) Peterson is demanding a ransom for Edmund's sister.
(c) Peterson is residing at the Hotel American House.
(d) Peterson is demanding a ransom for Edmund's mother.

6. With whom is Dupin's first encounter at the cemetery?
(a) Edmund.
(b) Mrs. Whitman.
(c) Edmund's dead aunt.
(d) Throck.

7. 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) Fortnoy.
(c) Throck.
(d) Rachett.

8. What does Poe tell Edmund about his sister at the end of the story?
(a) She will probably not live long.
(b) She would have lived longer in his story than in reality.
(c) She did not display courage throughout her abduction.
(d) She is a stronger person than Edmund.

9. When they return to Edmund's room after Edmund is attacked, what does Dupin tell Edmund to find?
(a) An encoded message.
(b) The newspaper the food is wrapped in.
(c) His wallet.
(d) His notebook.

10. What happens to Edmund when he confronts his sister's kidnapper?
(a) He is tied up.
(b) He is knocked into the harbor.
(c) He is knocked unconscious.
(d) He is taken onto the ship.

11. What does Edmund see on the tavern wall?
(a) A poster advertising a ransom for the return of Edmund's aunt.
(b) A poster advertising a ransom for the return of Edmund's sister.
(c) A poster advertising a reward for finding Mrs. G. Rachett.
(d) A poster advertising a reward for finding the bank robbers.

12. What does Mrs. Whitman ask Dupin to do in front of her guests?
(a) Pose for her.
(b) Keep a picture of her in his wallet.
(c) Have a type of photograph of his face made.
(d) Do a drawing of her face.

13. When he returns to the cemetery to find Dupin, who does Edmund see?
(a) A young, fair-haired man.
(b) An elderly man.
(c) A bald man.
(d) A middle-aged man.

14. How does Edmund escape his pursuer at the docks?
(a) By pretending to have a weapon.
(b) By jumping into the harbor and swimming away.
(c) By shouting out.
(d) By crawling along the underside of a wharf.

15. What does Dupin tell Edmund about Mr. Arnold?
(a) He is Edmund's step-father.
(b) He is Edmund's aunt's murderer.
(c) He is Edmund's father.
(d) He is Edmund's mother's murderer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the style of the novel mimic?

2. When introducing him to her guests, how does Mrs. Whitman refer to Dupin?

3. Where does Edmund go to find his sister?

4. What does Mrs. Whitman tells her guests that Dupin/Poe is?

5. Where is Edmund reunited with his mother?

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