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Question 3 (1 point)
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3. Read the passage below from “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe.
TRUE! -- nervous -- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses -- not destroyed -- not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily -- how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold, I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees -- very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
The narrator asserts that he suffers from anxiety but he isn’t a madman. Which of the following is evidence the narrator gives to support this assertion?
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“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?”
“I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
“TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
“Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me.”
Question 4 (1 point)
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4. Based on the excerpt of this story, the narrator seems to believe that:
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Someone who is reckless must be insane.
Madness prevents a person from exercising careful thought.
Murder is acceptable if you do it with care.
Working slowly would have meant he was mad.
Question 5 (1 point)
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5. Which of the following quotes best supports your answer to #4? (Choose 2)
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“Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work!”
“And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.”
“ It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha! --would a madman have been so wise as this?”
“Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me --the sound would be heard by a neighbor!”
