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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does Poe arrive at Benny Havens' in Chapter 28?

2. On what date did Fry begin his diary?

3. How did Lea give Poe a note at the dinner party?

4. In Chapter 24, what does Mrs. Marquis break before she leaves the dinner table?

5. What time does Mrs. Marquis invite Landor to a dinner party in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hitchcock think that Poe is a suspect in the murders?

2. What happens when Hitchcock and Landor search Artemus' room?

3. When Poe first went to the Marquis home for tea, what musical entertainment was there?

4. How did Lea come to take Poe for a sleigh ride?

5. Who is escorting Lea Marquis to Gouverneur Kemble's gathering in Chapter 30?

6. How is Ballinger killed?

7. Why did Private Horatio Cochrane leave his post when he was to guard Fry's body the night Fry was killed?

8. Where does the Marquis family live?

9. Who is Gouverneur Kemble?

10. Why does Poe believe that the dead haunt the living?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of The Pale Blue Eye and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 2

Setting is the place or places where a story happens. Where does The Pale Blue Eye take place? How do characters feel about the various settings and why?

Essay Topic 3

Landor recruits Poe to become an informant. How and why does Landor recruit Poe to be his assistant in the investigation?

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