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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 an epigraph?
(a) A quotation from another work.
(b) A solution to a problem.
(c) A piece of figurative language.
(d) A piece of dialogue.

2. Where did the person of interest obtain an animal?
(a) The United States.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Borneo.
(d) Puero Rico.

3. What is the point of view of the story?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person omniscient.
(d) Third person limited.

4. Describe the first piece of evidence found at the crime scene.
(a) Broken.
(b) Clear.
(c) Hard.
(d) Long.

5. Who speaks through a translator at the court case for the murders?
(a) The restaurant owner.
(b) The policeman.
(c) The salesman.
(d) A neighbor of the victims.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dupin's middle name?

2. How did the policeman describe the second voice he heard inside the Rue Morgue?

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

4. How many days before her death did Adolphe walk home the murder victim?

5. What could the police hear from outside the Rue Morgue?

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