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

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 sister.
(c) Arnold can be reached at the Providence Bank.
(d) Arnold is demanding a ransom for Edmund's mother.

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

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

5. As they are saying goodbye, what does Edmund accuse Poe of being afraid of?
(a) Living.
(b) Telling Mrs. Whitman his true feelings.
(c) Not succeeding as a writer.
(d) Dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man who hits Edmund with a gun?

2. At the end, what does Edmund come to realize about Poe's agenda?

3. With whom is Dupin's second encounter at the cemetery?

4. What does Edmund do to save his sister?

5. How do the kidnappers plan to use Edmund's sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do both Dupin and Edmund frequently believe they have seen ghosts?

2. Why is it significant in Chapter 14 that Edmund first begins to doubt Dupin's detective skills after talking to Captain Elias?

3. How does Edmund's character change by Chapter 18, compared to the Prologue?

4. What is the significance, in Chapter 16, of Edmund throwing himself at a man with a gun?

5. What does Dupin mean in Chapter 16 when he tells Edmund that "lies have their own truth"?

6. Why do you think the author uses the circular technique of starting Poe's story in a way that is identical to the start of the novel?

7. Do you think Poe is able to make up his own mind whether or not to root for Edmund's happiness, or does his nature force him to hope for the worst?

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 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?

10. What is the turning point Edmund experiences in Chapter 14?

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