PATHOLOGY MCQ
HEART
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Question
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because he wants them to stop smiling at him and punish him
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because he believes they hear the heartbeat and are mocking him
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because he wanted to be caught for the crime all along
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because he knew that they would find the evidence eventually
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Detailed explanation-1: -He thinks the police can hear the sound also, and that they are pretending they do not, making a mockery of his own horror. Finally, he feels he must scream or die. He shrieks loudly, admitting the murder and insisting the officers pull up the planks to reveal the beating of the old man’s “hideous heart.”
Detailed explanation-2: -He first conceals the old man’s body beneath the planks in the floor, then when he feels the need to reveal the murder to the policemen who have come to visit, he tells them to tear up the planks, meaning that his crime will no longer be hidden.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why does the narrator finally confess to the murder? He hears the heart pound and he thinks that the police can hear it but aren’t tell. What is the sound that drives the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” to confess? It was his own heart beat.