PATHOLOGY MCQ
HEART
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Question
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Reread these lines from the beginning of “The Tell-Tale Heart”:You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution ____ Which of the following questions might a reader of that passage have?
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Is the narrator lonely?
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Is the narrator insane?
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Will the narrator’s story be long or short?
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Will the narrator find true love?
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” chuckles at the old man’s fear. What does this response tell you about the narrator? He is cruel.
Detailed explanation-2: -The state of mind of the Narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” is insane because of the specific details that he includes, and he is an unreliable narrator. The narrator describes near the middle of the story a sense right after he kills the old man “I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done.
Detailed explanation-3: -He dragged the old man to the floor, pulled the mattress over him and slowly the muffled sound of the heart ceased to beat. The old man was dead-“his eye would trouble me no more."
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