PATHOLOGY MCQ
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The narrator and the old man resent having to live together because of the narrator’s disease, and so the narrator decides to murder the old man.
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The narrator is driven mad by the sound of a heart beating beneath the floorboards, and this causes him to kill the old man.
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The narrator watches the old man sleep, and when the terrified old man discovers this, the narrator kills him to keep his madness hidden.
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The narrator is terrified of the old man’s blue eye and overwhelmed by the sound of his heartbeat, so the narrator kills the old man.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. In the story, what causes the conflict between the narrator and the old man? The narrator and the old man resent having to live together because of the narrator’s disease, and so the narrator decides to murder the old man.
Detailed explanation-2: -The narrator has a love and hate relationship with the old man. He loved the old man as a friend, but he did not like his eye because it creped him out. The reason he said he hated the old mans eye was because it was like his eye could see through his soul.
Detailed explanation-3: -The primary conflict in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is whether the narrator will get away with killing the old man. In the end, he does not. The police arrive to investigate the old man’s scream. Still distraught over the murder, the narrator eventually caves under the pressure of the officers’ mere presence in his home.
Detailed explanation-4: -The narrator claims that he loved the old man, but it is unclear what the relationship is between them. The narrator mentions that the old man has “gold” but does not indicate that he works for the old man.