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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the salesman in the story sell?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Books.
(c) Fruits.
(d) Furniture.

2. What is Dupin's one impossible scenario?
(a) The murderer was an animal.
(b) A woman killed the victims.
(c) The women were killed by a friend.
(d) The women killed each other.

3. What are the contents of the second newspaper with information about the murders?
(a) Pictures of the crime scene.
(b) A brief statement of the arrest of a suspect.
(c) Pictures of suspects.
(d) Interviews.

4. How did the animal act when the man walked in on him at the Rue Morgue?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Enraged.
(d) Subdued.

5. When the neighbors looked on the 4th floor, who did they see immediately?
(a) A sailor.
(b) Nobody.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Dupin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location does Dupin claim to want to visit?

2. Who is first interviewed about the murders?

3. How many people have been killed in the story?

4. What is an epigraph?

5. Who helped the person of interest obtain the animal?

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