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

2. What is the occupation of the second person interviewed about the murders?
(a) Writer.
(b) Salesman.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Fortune teller.

3. Who does Dupin relay the story of the murder to?
(a) A woman on the street.
(b) The police.
(c) The tobacco salesman.
(d) The laundress.

4. What specific type of person does the narrator claim is often incapable of analysis?
(a) Ingenious men.
(b) Social men.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Duping believe is true about the killer?

2. What does Dupin believe he may have to do to the man who is coming to visit them?

3. Where is the first evidence for the murder found?

4. What did the man find the animal doing before it escaped?

5. How did the animal act after killing the women?

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