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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. With whom is Dupin's first encounter at the cemetery?
(a) Throck.
(b) Edmund.
(c) Mrs. Whitman.
(d) Edmund's dead aunt.
2. Where does Edmund go to find his sister?
(a) A church.
(b) A saloon.
(c) The docks.
(d) The cemetery.
3. How does Edmund convince Poe to help him find his sister?
(a) Threatening to tear up his story.
(b) Offering to help him write his story.
(c) Complimenting him on his detective skills.
(d) Withholding his liquor.
4. How does Throck convince Poe to help him and Edmund find Edmund's sister?
(a) Threatening to tear up his story.
(b) Giving him liquor.
(c) Withholding his liquor.
(d) Bribing him.
5. With whom is Dupin's second encounter at the cemetery?
(a) Throck.
(b) Mrs. Whitman.
(c) Edmund.
(d) Mrs. Powers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Mrs. Whitman ask Dupin to do in front of her guests?
2. What does Dupin find in the mausoleum?
3. What does another of the notices say?
4. What happens to the ship Edmund's sister was on?
5. What does Edmund do to save his sister?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the importance of the guests' discussion of whether it is possible to read a man's character from his face?
2. Why do you think the author has Edmund's mother demand both the divorce and her money, rather than just being satisfied with a divorce, when she first encounters her husband?
3. What is the turning point Edmund experiences in Chapter 14?
4. What does Dupin mean in Chapter 14 when he tells Edmund that "the story is over"?
5. Why is it significant in Chapter 19 that Edmund decodes an important riddle while all the adults around him sleep?
6. Why is it significant in Chapter 14 that Edmund first begins to doubt Dupin's detective skills after talking to Captain Elias?
7. What can the reader learn about the real-life Poe in this novel?
8. If you were Edmund, how do you feel about Poe's assertion that Sis lives on longer in Poe's story than she does in real life?
9. Why do you think Poe drops the remainder of his story on the ground before walking away from Edward for the last time?
10. How does Edmund's character change by Chapter 18, compared to the Prologue?
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