PATHOLOGY MCQ
HEART
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Question
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He thinks it is the only way to keep the cops from finding the body.
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He is boastful of how well he hid the body.
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He is worried he will give away the body’s location otherwise.
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He is going mad and wants to torture himself with guilt.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The narrator thinks can hear the old man’s heartbeat and feels the need to silence it. Why does the narrator seat himself and the officers in the room where the body is buried? He thinks it is the only way to keep the cops from finding the body.
Detailed explanation-2: -Confident that they will not find any evidence of the murder, the narrator brings chairs for them and they sit in the old man’s room. The chairs are placed on the very spot where the body is concealed; the police suspect nothing, and the narrator has a pleasant and easy manner.
Detailed explanation-3: -He thinks the police can hear the sound also, and that they are pretending they do not, making a mockery of his own horror. Finally, he feels he must scream or die. He shrieks loudly, admitting the murder and insisting the officers pull up the planks to reveal the beating of the old man’s “hideous heart.”
Detailed explanation-4: -He believes that he hears the old man’s heart beating. He may, however, be hearing the victim’s watch ticking or his own heart. Why does the narrator confess to his crime? He thinks the officers hear the same sound as he does, and he wants to get away from the sound, so he confesses.