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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. What is Dupin's one impossible scenario?
(a) A woman killed the victims.
(b) The murderer was an animal.
(c) The women killed each other.
(d) The women were killed by a friend.

2. What is the second word that the policeman hears from outside the crime scene?
(a) Malevolent.
(b) Diable.
(c) Criminal.
(d) Devil.

3. What was the Rue Morgue once used for?
(a) It was a factory.
(b) It was an art gallery.
(c) It is on the grounds where a zoo once was.
(d) Floors were rented to tenants.

4. Dupin's comments about the actor are a direct response to whose thoughts?
(a) The sailor's.
(b) The narrator's.
(c) The passerby's.
(d) The actor's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator describe as having an analytical mind?

2. Which of the following languages is not claimed to be belonging to the second voice?

3. What was Dupin able to obtain from the police?

4. What are the only possible manners of escape from the Rue Morgue for the murderer?

5. What is evidence of no forced entry into the Rue Morgue?

(see the answer key)

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