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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 game does the word draughts refer to?
(a) Checkers.
(b) Backgammon.
(c) Chess.
(d) Poker.

2. Who does the narrator describe as madmen?
(a) The sailor and his pet.
(b) Dupin and himself.
(c) Dupin and the sailor.
(d) The murder victims.

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

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

5. How long had the first person interviewed known the murder victims?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 3 years.
(d) No time at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second word that the policeman hears from outside the crime scene?

2. Who does Dupin believe the killer is?

3. What does the salesman in the story sell?

4. What does Dupin want the person of interest to tell him?

5. What was the tone of the voices that the neighbors heard?

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