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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dupin want the person of interest to tell him?
(a) The details of the murder.
(b) Who the real killer is.
(c) Who he should contact for more information about the murder.
(d) Why he killed the victims.

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

3. What fact is determined about the chimney?
(a) The victim was still alive when she was put in the chimney.
(b) It is too small to be an entrance and exit.
(c) The chimeny had previously been blocked in.
(d) The body in the chimney had been there longer than the other.

4. Which of the following is mentioned in the epigraph?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Athena.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Achilles.

5. Describe the yard outside the Rue Morgue.
(a) Small and grassy.
(b) Large with lots of grassy hills.
(c) Small and paved.
(d) Large with a swimming pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Madame L'Espanaye related to Camille?

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

3. What phrase did the third witness claim to have heard outside the crime scene?

4. What is Dupin's only luxury?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare Dupin to the police.

2. Describe the tobacco salesman's relationship with the two murdered women.

3. How might this short story have been considered controversial when it was written?

4. Describe the dead body that is found in the chimney.

5. Describe the way the sailor interacts with Dupin.

6. Describe how Dupin's analytical skills solved the crime.

7. What does the epigraph at the beginning of the story mean?

8. Why does Dupin feel disdain for the police investigation of the murders?

9. Describe the argument that ensues over the second language that the neighbors heard.

10. What are three activities or jobs Dupin might enjoy doing using his analytical abilities? Why?

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