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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 were the neighbors outside trying to do to the Rue Morgue?
(a) Lock up after they left.
(b) Get inside.
(c) Attack the women inside.
(d) Kill the murderer.

2. Describe the room in which the neighbors found on the 4th floor.
(a) Cluttered.
(b) Immaculate.
(c) Disarray.
(d) Bloody.

3. Describe the first piece of evidence found at the crime scene.
(a) Long.
(b) Broken.
(c) Hard.
(d) Clear.

4. What is the setting of the events that unfold in the story?
(a) New York.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

5. What is Dupin determined to do in the story?
(a) Form his own theories about the murders.
(b) Turn in the policeman for his awful work on the case.
(c) Watch the case unfold in an interesting manor.
(d) Make sure Adolphe stays behind bards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who answers the ad that Dupin puts up?

2. What has been taken from the Rue Morgue after the murders?

3. What are the only possible manners of escape from the Rue Morgue for the murderer?

4. Where was the second body found at the Rue Morgue?

5. What does the Narrator claim is the most analytical game?

(see the answer key)

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