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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Dupin, what quality of the murder defies any motive?
(a) The fact that the victims were women.
(b) The gruesomeness.
(c) The fact that the murder is so mysterious.
(d) The lack of suspects.

2. When the neighbors looked on the 4th floor, who did they see immediately?
(a) Dupin.
(b) A sailor.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Nobody.

3. What is the purpose of the epigraph in the beginning of the story?
(a) To illustrate the scene.
(b) To give the solution to the mystery.
(c) To foreshadow future events.
(d) To introduce the characters.

4. What is the first evidence found at the Rue Morgue?
(a) Fingernails.
(b) A weapon.
(c) Glass from the broken window.
(d) Hair.

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

6. Who goes with Dupin to the Rue Morgue?
(a) The salesman.
(b) The laundress.
(c) Adolphe.
(d) The Narrator.

7. What is Adolphe's job?
(a) Shopowner.
(b) Banker.
(c) Clerk.
(d) Accountant.

8. At the time of the murder, where were both of the women?
(a) One was outside and one was inside.
(b) In different rooms.
(c) In the same room.
(d) Both were outside.

9. What is Dupin determined to do in the story?
(a) Make sure Adolphe stays behind bards.
(b) Form his own theories about the murders.
(c) Watch the case unfold in an interesting manor.
(d) Turn in the policeman for his awful work on the case.

10. What was the ribbon once used for?
(a) Holding hair.
(b) As a piece of jewelry.
(c) As a toy.
(d) As part of a dress.

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

12. How does Dupin know the man who was arrested for the murders?
(a) The man helped Dupin with something.
(b) The man wrote a letter to Dupin.
(c) The man was a waiter at a restaurant Dupin frequented.
(d) The man sold Dupin a detective story.

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

14. What did the police note about the windows at the Rue Morgue?
(a) They were impossible to escape from.
(b) They had been replaced.
(c) They had been broken.
(d) They were the method of escape for the murderer.

15. What does Dupin say has the best chance of owning the animal he is looking for?
(a) A child.
(b) A sailor.
(c) A woman.
(d) A man in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did the animal do?

2. When the news report is read by Dupin, what does he realize?

3. Why did the animal need help from the person of interest?

4. When the person of interest enters Dupin's home, what does Dupin do?

5. How many pieces are a part of the first evidence found in the Rue Morgue?

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