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MULTIPLE CHOICE
The Pit and the Pendulum
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1. What is the famous first line of this story ?
There are few persons, even among the calmest
thinkers...
I was sick-sick unto death with that long
agony...
The sentence-the dread sentence of death...
During the fall of the year 1827...
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2. What phenomenon does the narrator discuss in
great detail?
human suffering
the subconscious
painless death
swooning
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3. What object does the narrator believe he is
enclosed in after he recovers from his faint?
a tomb
a wooden box
an even smaller cell
a wall
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4. What object does the narrator attempt to
retrieve from his clothing?
a lock pick
a knife
a small bit of food
his handkerchief
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5. When the narrator awoke from his first nap in
the chamber, what did he find beside him?
a letter and a rope
a blanket and soup
loaf of bread and a pitcher of water
a quill and parchment
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6. When the narrator explores his prison chamber,
he believes it to be a rectangle of 100 yards in
circuit.
False
True
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7. Daring to walk across the chamber, the
narrator trips on the torn hem of his robe and
falls. He then makes a discovery that
his calculations were off, the room is 60 yards
in circuit
his captors have left wine and bread in the
middle of the room
there is another man in the chamber with him
his chin touches the floor, but his lips and
upper head didn't touch solid surface
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8. After the narrator's initial discovery, he
becomes convinced there are deep wells throughout
the chamber.
False
True
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9. Why does a deep sleep overcome the narrator?
lack of nutrition
the exhaustion of scaling the chamber
drugged water
the fear brought on by the pit
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10. The prison cell was constructed out of which
material?
sandstone
brick
wood
iron
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11. The narrator is placed upon a wooden
framework and bound tightly except for which two
body parts?
his ankles
head and left arm
his arms
right arm and abdominal area
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12. A noise coming from the pit attracts the
narrator's attention. What animal began to issue
from the hole?
large, black bugs
birds
rats
mice
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13. The narrator suddenly becomes aware of a
swinging pendulum descending very slowly from the
ceiling.
True
False
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14. The pendulum was meant to cross which part of
the body?
face
heart
stomach
brain
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15. Within sweeps of the deadly device, the
narrator states that he did what for the first
time in days?
smiled
prayed
cried
thought
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16. The narrator believes that he can be freed
from his bondage by letting the pendulum sweep
across and cut the cords off of him.
True
False
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17. How soon after the narrator frees himself do
his captors imprison him once more?
after several hours
5 minutes later
less than 1 minute
nearly a half an hour later
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18. The chamber walls begin to shift from the
original form of a rectangle to what new shape?
octagon
diamond
circle
triangle
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19. The narrator's fate at the end of "The Pit
and the Pendulum"
the narrator faints and falls into the abyss
an open ending doesn't let us know if the
narrator lived or died
the captors push the narrator into the pit and
rats soon devour his body
the French Army arrives and sets the prisioners
free
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20. This story takes place in Toledo during the
17th century.
True
False
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End of Game
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