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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time did Epaphras Huntoon get off duty the night he found Fry's body?
(a) 11 p.m.
(b) 9:30 p.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 10 p.m.

2. What time does Landor fall asleep while talking to Poe in Chapter 9?
(a) 3:15 p.m.
(b) 3 p.m.
(c) 1:30 p.m.
(d) 2 p.m.

3. In Chapter 9, what mountains can Landor see from his hotel room window?
(a) Blue Ridge.
(b) Shawangunk.
(c) Noonmark.
(d) Hackensack.

4. Who does Poe say was once Fry's roommate?
(a) Horrigan.
(b) Loughborough.
(c) Cabanne.
(d) Ambrewster.

5. In Chapter 9, how many lines of the note that was in Fry's hand does Poe believe he has deciphered?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, how old is Landor?

2. How old was Poe when he swam seven and a half miles in the James River?

3. When did Poe's parent die in a theater fire?

4. When Artemus Marquis invites Poe to play cards, what does the group play?

5. In Chapter 4, at what hotel is Landor staying?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Thayer and Hitchcock reluctant to have Landor engage Poe to be his eyes and ears, an informer, among the cadets?

2. Who was de Lancre, and what did he write that seemed to have relevance to the Fry case?

3. How was Landor summoned to West Point in Chapter 1?

4. Who is Professor Pawpaw?

5. How is Landor innundated by people from his past in "Last Testament of Gus Landor"?

6. What is Professor Pawpaw's cottage like outside?

7. Why does Landor write to Henry Kirke Reid on October 30, 1830?

8. Why does Poe think that Landor reads poetry, and how does he learn he is mistaken?

9. Why is Landor staying at Mr. Cozzens' hotel in Chapter 4?

10. What was the only mistress that Landor's wife, Amelia, feared?

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