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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Mrs. Powers want her daughter to marry?
(a) Mr. Peterson.
(b) Mr. Arnold.
(c) Mr. Poley.
(d) Mr. Poe.
2. What happened to Poe in real life?
(a) He was not a famous author.
(b) He declined into depression and alcoholism.
(c) He was rehabilitated.
(d) He had a son named Edmund.
3. What happens to Edmund when he confronts his sister's kidnapper?
(a) He is knocked into the harbor.
(b) He is knocked unconscious.
(c) He is tied up.
(d) He is taken onto the ship.
4. What does Throck ask Edmund about Poe?
(a) If he is a drunkard.
(b) If he is getting the reward money for finding Edward's aunt.
(c) If he is getting the reward money for finding Edward's mother.
(d) If he is looking for Edmund's sister.
5. At the docks, who is Edmund pursued by?
(a) Someone he never sees.
(b) A man with dark hair.
(c) A man with white hair.
(d) A ghost.
6. When Edmund follows Dupin to see if he will meet Mrs. Whitman in the cemetery, Dupin first goes into a _____.
(a) Church.
(b) Tavern.
(c) Store.
(d) Bank.
7. What does Mrs. Whitman tells her guests that Dupin/Poe is?
(a) Her suitor.
(b) An author.
(c) Edmund's father.
(d) A detective.
8. What does Edmund see on the tavern wall?
(a) A poster advertising a reward for finding Mrs. G. Rachett.
(b) A poster advertising a ransom for the return of Edmund's sister.
(c) A poster advertising a reward for finding the bank robbers.
(d) A poster advertising a ransom for the return of Edmund's aunt.
9. What happens to the ship Edmund's sister was on?
(a) It overturns.
(b) It hits a rock.
(c) It plows into Edmund's boat.
(d) It gets away.
10. What does Dupin NOT tell Edmund about Arnold's classified ad?
(a) It was placed by Peterson.
(b) It was intended to get a reaction from Edmund's aunt.
(c) It brought Rachett and Peterson together.
(d) It was placed by Rachett.
11. At the tavern, what does Throck tell Edmund?
(a) Edmund's aunt hired him to find his mother.
(b) He does not know where Edmund's sister is.
(c) Edmund's mother hired him to find his aunt.
(d) He knows where Edmund's sister is.
12. What does Dupin remind Edmund that Edmund first noticed about his aunt's body?
(a) The body was too decayed to see clearly.
(b) It was too dark to see her face.
(c) Her hair was longer that Edmund remembered.
(d) She wore a strange dress.
13. What does the style of the novel mimic?
(a) The style of Poe's detective stories.
(b) The style of Poe's romantic stories.
(c) The style of Sherlock Holmes stories.
(d) The style of the fairy tales Sis reads.
14. What does seeing himself in Edmund lead Poe to do?
(a) Try to give Edmund a better ending to his own story.
(b) Think of himself as Edmund's father.
(c) Try to make Edmund as unhappy as he is.
(d) Relate to Edmund's twin sister as well.
15. Where does Edmund go to find his sister?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) The docks.
(c) A saloon.
(d) A church.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Dupin learn at the portrait studio?
2. When Edmund figures out where his sister is, who accompanies him to rescue her?
3. What does Dupin NOT tell Edmund about his mother?
4. What truth does Edmund demand of Poe before they part ways?
5. At the end of the story, how has Edmund changed?
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