PATHOLOGY MCQ
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Question
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Which statement best describes a major theme of the story?
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Honesty can relieve you of your guilt and help you feel better.
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Fear can shape how we see things and how we act.
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Our sanity is determined by how we react to different situations.
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The truth is a matter of personal perception and beliefs.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The beating heart represents the narrator’s guilt over murdering the old man. The guilt tormented him, just like how the beating heart tormented him.
Detailed explanation-2: -In “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843), the narrator is afraid of the old man because he is concerned with the old man. The narrator’s fear of the old man exemplifies the fear of the real society: “it was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement best explains how a reader can tell that the passage’s narrator is unreliable? The narrator claims he is not suffering from madness, but he has no rational reason to kill the old man.
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