The Pit and The Pedulum

What is Poe's tone in the story?

• Serious and boring
• Happy and Joyfull
• Humorous and light 
• Dark, Serious, and Urgent

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CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What were the walls made out of?

• concrete
• iron
• brick
• wood

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What does the narrator find when he trips?

• pit
• bulldog
• rats everywhere
• food 

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

Which of the following is NOT a feature of the prison cell in which story is set?

• A circular pit

• Barred windows

• Stone mansory and metal plates

• paintings of demons, skeletons, and other frightening figures

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.W.5.9A

The narrator is saved by a french general.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

The story is told by the prisoner

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The narrator thinks that he may find himself in a tomb beacuse he's dead

• False

• True

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Why is the narrator afraid to be in the darkness?

• Because not being able to see anything is more terrifying than actually seeing something.

• Because he does not like to be alone

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CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The narrator is sentenced to death, yet the authorities provide him with food. Why?

• To torture him before they killed him.

• They liked him

• They don't want him to die yet

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CCSS.RL.5.1

The prisoner frees himself when he —

• waits until the pendulum cuts the bonds and quickly rolls out of the way

• screams and screams until they release him

• pays a great deal of money and is released

• smears meat on the bonds that hold him, and the rats chew through them

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CCSS.RL.5.1