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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 19-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The prologue introduces the reader to all of the following EXCEPT _____.
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) The novel's's setting.
(c) Edmund and his sister.
(d) A missing mother and aunt.

2. When Poe arrives at the scene where Edmund is trying to rescue his sister, how does he say he figured out the meaning of the decoded message?
(a) Using one of his stories.
(b) While drinking.
(c) Throck figured it out first.
(d) In a dream.

3. What happened to Poe in real life?
(a) He declined into depression and alcoholism.
(b) He was not a famous author.
(c) He had a son named Edmund.
(d) He was rehabilitated.

4. What does Edmund bring with him to rescue his sister?
(a) Throck's gun.
(b) A kitchen knife.
(c) Poe's knife.
(d) Poe's gun.

5. How does Edmund escape his pursuer at the docks?
(a) By pretending to have a weapon.
(b) By shouting out.
(c) By crawling along the underside of a wharf.
(d) By jumping into the harbor and swimming away.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Edmund have at the beginning of the story?

2. In the prologue, where is the children's mother?

3. What truth does Edmund demand of Poe before they part ways?

4. When Edmund first mentions Rachett's name, where does Dupin remember hearing the name?

5. Why does Poe believe he will not marry Mrs. Whitman at the end of the novel?

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