PATHOLOGY MCQ
HEART
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Because the old man wronged him
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Because someone hired him to
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Because of his pale blue eye
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Because of gold
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Detailed explanation-1: -The actual reason for the murder is caused by the narrator’s terror whenever the old man looks at him: “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold . . . .” It is because of this “evil eye” landing on him that the narrator decides he must murder the man.
Detailed explanation-2: -Since the narrator is only vexed with the old man’s eye, he doesn’t kill the old man because during the first seven nights, the eye was closed. Since the eye is closed, he had no problem with the old man, nor a reason to kill him.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of Poe’s most famous stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a story of a man who is haunted by the sound of a beating heart. That beating heart belongs to the heart of an old man he murdered due to a fear of the old man’s pale blue eye, a crime which he can’t seem to clear his conscience of.