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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dupin surprised to learn that Captain Elias told Edmund?
(a) Captain Elias was keeping watch at the time of the murder.
(b) Fortnoy was keeping watch at the time of the murder.
(c) The Lady Liberty does not exist.
(d) The S.S. Freedom does not exist.

2. What does Edmund realizes about the meaning of the word "Sunrise" in the decoded message?
(a) It is a picture.
(b) It is a ship.
(c) It is a drink.
(d) It is a story.

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

4. When introducing him to her guests, how does Mrs. Whitman refer to Dupin?
(a) Mr. Arnold.
(b) Mr. Rachett.
(c) Mr. Poe.
(d) Edmund's father.

5. Where is Edmund reunited with his mother?
(a) In a bank.
(b) In a church.
(c) In a cemetery.
(d) In a saloon.

6. Where does Edmund go to find his sister?
(a) A church.
(b) A saloon.
(c) The docks.
(d) The cemetery.

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

8. Who does Dupin tell Edmund that Rachett has killed?
(a) His partner, Peterson.
(b) Edmund's mother, believing her to be Edmund's aunt.
(c) Edmund's sister.
(d) Edmund's aunt, believing her to be Edmund's mother.

9. What happens to the ship Edmund's sister was on?
(a) It plows into Edmund's boat.
(b) It hits a rock.
(c) It overturns.
(d) It gets away.

10. What does Dupin remind Edmund that Edmund first noticed about his aunt's body?
(a) Her hair was longer that Edmund remembered.
(b) She wore a strange dress.
(c) The body was too decayed to see clearly.
(d) It was too dark to see her face.

11. What does Edmund see in the mausoleum?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A button.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A corpse.

12. What does Dupin admit to Edmund about himself?
(a) He is Mr. Whitman.
(b) He is a drunkard.
(c) He is very wealthy.
(d) He is Edgar Allan Poe.

13. What does Edmund buy at the tavern for himself and his mother?
(a) A meat pie.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) Bread.
(d) Candles and matches.

14. 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 reward for finding Mrs. G. Rachett.
(c) A poster advertising a reward for finding the bank robbers.
(d) A poster advertising a ransom for the return of Edmund's sister.

15. What does Edmund do to save his sister?
(a) He uses Poe's knife.
(b) He dives into the water.
(c) He uses Throck's gun.
(d) He offers to trade places with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of book does the person Edmund sees at the cemetery drop?

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

3. Who or what is Peggy?

4. How does Edmund convince Poe to help him find his sister?

5. Given what he learns at the portrait studio, what does Dupin come to believe?

(see the answer keys)

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