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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which character serves as a template for deductive minds?
(a) Dupin.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) The sailor.
(d) The policeman.
2. What does Dupin spend time investigating?
(a) The chimney.
(b) The trapdoor.
(c) The windows.
(d) The doors.
3. Who is first interviewed about the murders?
(a) Dupin.
(b) A laundress.
(c) A tobacco salesman.
(d) The narrator.
4. What tool was the animal using when the man walked in on him?
(a) A pen.
(b) A razor.
(c) A fork.
(d) A knife.
5. What are the police not focusing on, according to Dupin?
(a) Important aspects of the crime.
(b) Other possible victims.
(c) Possible suspects.
(d) The place that the killer worked.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Adolphe see when he accompanied the murder victim home?
2. What has been taken from the Rue Morgue after the murders?
3. What language does the third witness claim to have heard from the second voice at the crime scene?
4. To Dupin, what quality of the murder defies any motive?
5. What does the epigraph introduce?
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