PATHOLOGY MCQ
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Question
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What sound is being described in the following passage from “The Tell-Tale Heart”? ____ a low, dull, quick sound, such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.
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the distant roar of the ocean
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the beating of a heart
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the narrator’s watch ticking
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the pounding of the police at the door
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -But he warns the reader not to mistake his “over-acuteness of the senses” for madness because he says that suddenly there came to his ears “a low, dull, quick sound": It was the beating of the old man’s heart.
Detailed explanation-2: -The second major symbol in this short story is the beating heart, which represents the narrator’s conscience. After he kills the old man, the narrator starts to hear the loudly beating heart of the dead man.
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