PATHOLOGY MCQ
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The old man is a restless sleeper, so the narrator cannot sneak in.
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The narrator does not have enough light from the lantern to commit the murder.
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He is trying to be kind by giving the old man a few more days to live.
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He cannot see the old man’s eye, which is what he feels he needs to kill.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In paragraph 4, the narrator describes visiting the old man every night at midnight. Why is he unable to commit the murder for the first seven nights? He cannot see the old man’s eye, which is what he feels he needs to kill.
Detailed explanation-2: -The narrator continuously checks on the old man at midnight for 7 nights. On the eighth night, the lantern light lands on the open eye of the old man. The narrator becomes enraged. Then the narrator thinks that the neighbors will hear the old man’s heart beating (but it is really HIS heart beating).
Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator wants to kill the old man because of his clouded eye. Exposition: The narrator enters the old man’s room for seven nights hoping to see the eye.
Detailed explanation-4: -For seven nights, the narrator opens the door of the old man’s room to shine a sliver of light onto the “evil eye.” However, the old man’s vulture-eye is always closed, making it impossible to “do the work, ‘’ thus making the narrator go further into distress.