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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 first initial?
(a) G.
(b) A.
(c) C.
(d) M.

2. What is the occupation of the second person interviewed about the murders?
(a) Salesman.
(b) Fortune teller.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Writer.

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

4. How did the older murder victim die?
(a) She had been shot.
(b) She bled to death.
(c) She died of shock.
(d) She was beat to death.

5. What is evidence of no forced entry into the Rue Morgue?
(a) There were cobwebs over all the doors.
(b) There were no windows.
(c) The gate had not been opened in years.
(d) The doors were locked from the inside.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the policeman describe the second voice he heard inside the Rue Morgue?

2. What is the purpose of the epigraph in the beginning of the story?

3. What does Dupin tell the person of interest that he has?

4. What is the name of the author of the epigraph?

5. How did the policeman describe the first voice he heard in the Rue Morgue?

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