PATHOLOGY MCQ
HEART
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Question
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Which statement from the text proves that the narrator feels guilty?
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“there was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.”
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“A shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused; information had been lodged at the police office, and they (the officers) had been deputed to search the premises”
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“The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease.”
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“Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! ____ tear up the planks! ____ here, here! ____ it is the beating of this hideous heart!”
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe the narrator kills a man and he is confessing to the cops about it. He confesses how long the murder took and what he did each night and how he executed the murder. However, the narrator is not guilty because of the reason of insanity.
Detailed explanation-2: -What evidence does the narrator give that he is not mad? The narrator says that he “heard all things in the heaven and in the earth” and “many things in hell.” He also expresses his desire to take the old man’s life because he has a pale blue eye that makes his blood run cold.
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