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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. Why do Dupin and the narrator move in together?
(a) They hope it will encourage them to find wives.
(b) It will save them money.
(c) They enjoy each other's company.
(d) They hope to exchange knowledge.

2. What genre does the story best fit into?
(a) Ghost story.
(b) Detective story.
(c) Comedy-mystery.
(d) Gothic horror story.

3. What does the Narrator claim is the most analytical game?
(a) Chess.
(b) Draughts.
(c) Crazy Eights.
(d) Poker.

4. How did Dupin describe the hair that he found when he conducted his own investigation?
(a) Suggesting a poor diet for the person who it shed from.
(b) Not belonging to a human.
(c) Gray.
(d) Pieces of a wig.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements is true about the older victim?

2. What is the Rue Morgue?

3. Which of the following words describes The Narrator?

4. What does the epigraph introduce?

5. What does the Narrator claim doesn't make a good player?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Dupin's thoughts about the voices the neighbors overheard?

2. Why did a struggle erupt between the sailor and the orangutan?

3. Why is Adolphe arrested for the murders?

4. How did the sailor obtain an orangutan?

5. Why did Edgar Allan Poe include an epigraph before the story begins?

6. Describe the location where Madame L'Espanaye's body was found.

7. Why does Dupin believe that the sailor is innocent in the crimes?

8. In what ways is The Narrator observant like Dupin?

9. Why does Dupin want to visit the crime scene?

10. What does Dupin feel the motive for the murders is?

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