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

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

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

4. As Edmund is spying on Dupin near the cemetery, whom does he see emerge from the Hotel American House and enter Mrs. Whitman's house?
(a) Peterson.
(b) Rachett.
(c) Fortnoy.
(d) Throck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the style of the novel mimic?

2. How does Edmund escape his pursuer at the docks?

3. When Edmund figures out where his sister is, who accompanies him to rescue her?

4. When Edmund follows Dupin to see if he will meet Mrs. Whitman in the cemetery, Dupin first goes into a _____.

5. What is Dupin surprised to learn that Captain Elias told Edmund?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the symbolism, in Chapter 13, of Dupin's imagining that Helen's mothers guests are demons wearing masks of black death?

3. What is the importance of the guests' discussion of whether it is possible to read a man's character from his face?

4. What is the symbolism in Chapter 19 of Edmund's grabbing Poe's story and threatening to rip it up if Poe does not help him?

5. How do you think Edmund felt upon reading the beginning of Poe's story, and seeing the name "Edgar" changed to "Edmund"? Do you think it made him regret having torn up the rest of the story?

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

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

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

9. Why do you think Edmund makes the final decision to tear up Poe's story before going to the docks to rescue Sis?

10. 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?

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