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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 are the only possible manners of escape from the Rue Morgue for the murderer?
(a) Doors.
(b) Windows.
(c) Chimneys.
(d) A trapdoor on the floor.

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

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

4. What does Dupin tell the person of interest that he has?
(a) A phone.
(b) Handcuffs.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A knife.

5. What is the occupation of the fourth witness at the court case for the murders?
(a) Shopkeeper.
(b) Policeman.
(c) Banker.
(d) Fortune teller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the style of Dupin and the narrator's home?

2. What is Dupin's one impossible scenario?

3. How is Dupin different from his family?

4. Which of the following appears in Dupin's thought process for the comment he makes about an actor?

5. What does the epigraph introduce?

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