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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dupin learn that Aunty Pru was told of Edmund's mother's location?
(a) A banker.
(b) A letter from Edmund's mother.
(c) A sailor.
(d) An ad in a newspaper.

2. Where does Edmund take the man he encounters on the street at the beginning of the story?
(a) Windemere Street.
(b) Ann Street.
(c) Shamrock Street.
(d) Wickenden Street.

3. When they investigate the room that faces Edmund's room, what do Edmund and Dupin find?
(a) A written message from Edmund's sister.
(b) A button from Edmund's sister's shoe.
(c) A large sum of money.
(d) A trail of blood.

4. When Dupin goes to the courthouse, what do Thock and Fortnoy testify about?
(a) Finding Aunt Pru's body.
(b) Witnessing the bank robbery.
(c) Killing Edmund's mother.
(d) Abducting Edmund's sister.

5. The book's prologue is particularly engaging for its target audience of _____.
(a) Women.
(b) Amateur detectives.
(c) Professional detectives.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the story take place?

2. As he leaves the bank, what does Dupin tell Peterson his name is?

3. On his way to the saloon to buy supplies for himself and Dupin, who follow Edward?

4. What is the only item missing after Edmund's room is ransacked?

5. What two things does this novel incorporate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can the reader deduce about the real-life Poe from part one of the novel?

2. Why do you think the author has Dupin tell Edmund that he has certain critical information, but refuses to share it with him?

3. Based on the prologue, what do you think is the author's opinion of Poe as a writer?

4. What does the author accomplish in part one by having Dupin tell Edmund that Edmund already has all the facts he needs to solve the crime?

5. Why do you think Dupin is so obsessed with death?

6. Why do you think the author decided to set up a mystery in the style of Edgar Allan Poe?

7. Do you think the story would be as effective if it were set in a different time period?

8. What is the significance of the absence of adults in the Prologue?

9. When Edmund sees Dupin asleep, surrounded by empty liquor bottles, in Chapter Three, what conflict does it bring about it Edmund's thinking?

10. Why do you think Poe chooses to go by the name of his fictional detective?

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