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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 person of interest tell Dupin?
(a) Why he killed the women.
(b) What weapon was used.
(c) The story of the murder.
(d) The motive for the killer.

2. What does Dupin hope the ad will do directly?
(a) Encourage further police investigation.
(b) Bring the animal to him.
(c) Bring the sailor to him.
(d) Release the person arrested for the crime.

3. What is the epigraph's message to the reader?
(a) Analysis is very important.
(b) All mysteries are solvable.
(c) There are many temptations in life.
(d) Anybody or anything can be a killer.

4. How does Dupin know the man who was arrested for the murders?
(a) The man helped Dupin with something.
(b) The man wrote a letter to Dupin.
(c) The man was a waiter at a restaurant Dupin frequented.
(d) The man sold Dupin a detective story.

5. How did the older murder victim die?
(a) She was beat to death.
(b) She bled to death.
(c) She had been shot.
(d) She died of shock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the color of the first piece of evidence found at the Rue Morgue?

2. How did the person of interest obtain the animal?

3. What is directly outside the window at the Rue Morgue?

4. Who does Dupin believe the killer is?

5. Which body part of the older murder victim was falling off?

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