
Pit and Pendulum
Authored by Sarah Williams
English
10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Why does the protagonist think he will be subjected to a new torture device after he frees himself from the knots?
He knows he is guilty.
His captors informed him of this.
He figures he won't be let off so easily.
He sees the next torture device in the pit.
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The narrator in "The Pit and the Pendulum" examines his surroundings by
lighting a match so that he can see
feeling his way around the cell
running around the chamber
yelling to hear echoes
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In "The Pit and the Pendulum," why do the torturers put out food and water when the narrator first succumbs to fatigue?
to poison the narrator
to prolong the torture
to elicit a confession
to comply with the law
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
How does the narrator free himself from his bindings?
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
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Choose the best paraphrase for the following sentence: "The sentence-the dread sentence of death-was the last distinct accentuation which reached my ears."
My death sentence was the last thing I heard clearly.
I distinctly heard a sentence with the word death in it.
My torturers wanted to pronounce a death sentence.
Prisoners rarely heard about their own death sentences.
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
How does Poe's style help you understand the meaning of the following sentence: "Inch by inch-line by line-with a descent only appreciable at intervals that seemed ages-down and still down it came!"
Grotesque images convey the horror of the narrator's situation.
Unusual word choices cause confusion about what is happening.
The first-person point of view conceals the torturers' plan.
Repeated words add to the narrator's sense of desperation.
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Choose the best paraphrase for the following sentence: "The surcingle enveloped my limbs and body close in all directions-save in the path of the destroying crescent."
The bindings wrapped only the part of my body where the pendulum would swing.
The bindings wrapped my entire body tightly except where the pendulum would swing.
The pendulum is going to hit my body after it cuts through the bindings.
The pendulum would swing through the wrappings that covered my body.
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
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