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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which body part of the older murder victim was falling off?
(a) Head.
(b) Feet.
(c) Her body was cut entirely in half.
(d) Hands.

3. Who does Dupin explain his hypothesis to first?
(a) The sailor.
(b) The salesperson.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Adolphe.

4. What are the contents of the second newspaper with information about the murders?
(a) A brief statement of the arrest of a suspect.
(b) Pictures of the crime scene.
(c) Pictures of suspects.
(d) Interviews.

5. What does Dupin hope the ad will do directly?
(a) Bring the sailor to him.
(b) Bring the animal to him.
(c) Encourage further police investigation.
(d) Release the person arrested for the crime.

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

7. What does Dupin tell The Narrator about the case?
(a) He knows who the real killer is.
(b) Somebody needs to analyze the crime scene.
(c) It is not unsolvable.
(d) He compares it to a piece of literature.

8. What is the second word that the policeman hears from outside the crime scene?
(a) Diable.
(b) Malevolent.
(c) Devil.
(d) Criminal.

9. How do neighbors enter the Rue Morgue?
(a) They break a window.
(b) They use a crowbar.
(c) They enter through the garage.
(d) The door is already open.

10. Describe the relationship between the murder victims and the first person interviewed about them.
(a) They disapproved of each other.
(b) Constantly fighting.
(c) There was no relationship.
(d) Good terms.

11. What was the animal doing when the man followed him and found him elsewhere?
(a) Stealing tobacco.
(b) Shaving Madame L'Espanaye.
(c) Strangling a woman.
(d) Shoving a body up the chimney.

12. How many days before her death did Madame L'Espanaye pull out money?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

13. How does Dupin get to the crime scene?
(a) He is given permission.
(b) He sneaks in through a window.
(c) He breaks down the door.
(d) He breaks open the gate.

14. How long had the first person interviewed known the murder victims?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) No time at all.

15. How does The Narrator generally feel toward Dupin?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Anger.
(d) Envy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dupin want the person of interest to tell him?

2. At the time of the murder, where were both of the women?

3. Describe the relationship between Dupin and the narrator.

4. Who helped the person of interest obtain the animal?

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

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