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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the style of Dupin and the narrator's home?
(a) Gothic.
(b) Roman.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Modern.

2. What woke up the neighbors of the Rue Morgue?
(a) Breaking windows.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) A fight.
(d) Screams.

3. Which character serves as a template for deductive minds?
(a) The sailor.
(b) Dupin.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) The policeman.

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

5. Who is described as using calculation, not analysis?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) Draughts players.
(c) Chess players.
(d) Dupin.

6. Who is first interviewed about the murders?
(a) Dupin.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A tobacco salesman.
(d) A laundress.

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

8. How did the person of interest obtain the animal?
(a) He rescued it.
(b) It followed him home.
(c) He captured it.
(d) He bought it.

9. What was Dupin able to obtain from the police?
(a) Essays.
(b) Jewelry that once belonged to the victims.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Drawings.

10. What is Dupin's relationship to the first interviewed person?
(a) He used to date them.
(b) There is no relationship.
(c) They went to school together.
(d) They are related.

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

12. Where is the first evidence for the murder found?
(a) The window.
(b) The door.
(c) The backyard.
(d) The hearth.

13. Describe the relationship between Dupin and the narrator.
(a) They are co-workers.
(b) They are good friends.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) One is a teacher and one is a student.

14. How does Dupin describe the person who strangled the younger murder victim?
(a) A man with no regard for life.
(b) A man with a lot of muscles.
(c) A man with a lot of rage.
(d) Not a human.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words did the policeman hear from outside the crime scene?

2. How did the second person interviewed know one of the murder victims?

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

4. Where was the older murder victim cut?

5. Where was all the furniture located at the Rue Morgue?

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