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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. How was the person found in the chimney killed?
(a) Gunshot.
(b) Decapitated.
(c) Stabbed.
(d) Strangulation.

2. What appears to be impossible for the murderer to have done in the room at the Rue Morgue?
(a) Hide the weapon.
(b) Hide the bodies.
(c) Exit.
(d) Steal anything.

3. What is the Rue Morgue?
(a) A home.
(b) A theater.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) A morgue.

4. What is Dupin's first initial?
(a) G.
(b) A.
(c) C.
(d) M.

5. Which of the following appears in Dupin's thought process for the comment he makes about an actor?
(a) Orion.
(b) A book he read a month ago.
(c) Sherlock Holmes.
(d) The cloudy sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dupin's one impossible scenario?

2. What does Dupin spend time investigating?

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

4. What are the contents of the second newspaper with information about the murders?

5. How does Dupin know the man who was arrested for the murders?

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