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WorksheetsFinal Examination Review 1 - The Pit and The Pendulum
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 50mins
“To the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of
death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.” Which does the narrator get?
Neither
Both
Physical agonies
Moral horrors
“I longed, yet dared not, to employ my vision. [...] It was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that I grew aghast lest there should be nothing to see.” What does he see when he opens his eyes?
Nothing. It’s completely dark
A pit
Father Time
Bright white lights
What thing is described here?: “the whole hissed”
The pit
The snake dangling from the walls
The pendulum
The judges
What was “the last of distinct accentuation
which reached [the narrator’s] ears”?
His wife crying
The sentence of death
His own screaming
The judges saying “sorry”
“I was an imbecile—an idiot.” What does this actually mean?
He is mentally handicapped by fear.
He forgets what 2 + 2 is.
He can’t move anymore.
Obviously the pit and pendulum strike fear into the
narrator—but what else does?
Death
Thirst
Women
The dark
When are the narrator’s best thoughts formed?
When he’s the most afraid
In the dark
When he’s drunk
In the in-between state between consciousness and unconsciousness
No one dies in this story, so how is it about death?
Poe makes us ponder death.
The narrator wants to die.
The narrator is homicidal.
Everyone is actually dead.
Why can’t the narrator figure out the shape of the room in the dark?
There is no definite shape.
There are no walls.
It is meant to disorient the narrator.
Because he dies first .
What is the narrator doing when he almost falls into the pit?
Trying to escape
Trying to measure the diameter of his cell
Trying to exercise
Running away from the rats
Who is the picture on the ceiling?
The narrator
The judges
Father Time
General Lasalle
What’s up with the pendulum?
It’s gonna cut him in half!
It’s measuring how long the narrator has been in the cell.
It’s a swing.
How does the narrator escape from the pendulum ?
General Lasalle frees him.
The rats chew him out of his restraint.
He pushes himself into the pit.
He sets it on fire.
What happens after the narrator saves himself from the pendulum ?
He falls into the pit.
He breaks through one of the walls.
He curls up and starts crying.
The walls begin to glow and start caving in.
The purpose of the Spanish Inquisition was to discover and punish converted Jews.
True
False
Why isn’t the narrator burned at the stake?
He’s not a witch.
He’s not flammable.
His jailors want to make him think.
It’s too wet out.
What does the pit symbolize for Catholics?
Hell
Swamps
Heaven
Torture
What is Father Time holding instead of a scythe?
A cane
A pendulum
A cat
A knife
What book does Poe constantly allude to?
Grimm’s fairy tales
Poe’s earlier works
Trial records from the Inquisition
The book of Revelation
Why is Father Time on the ceiling?
He is the bringer of death.
He is the bringer of life.
He’s terrifying.
It’s just a really cool picture.
How is the story told?
Present tense
Past tense
As a fairy tale
When is this happening?
During the French Revolution
During the American Civil War
During the Spanish Inquisition
During the Gulf War
Who saves the narrator and what does it mean?
One of the judges, because he felt bad
Abraham Lincoln, because the Civil War is over
He saves himself, because he’s magic
General Lasalle, because the Inquisition is over
What crime is the narrator imprisoned for?
It’s never specified.
He’s a witch.
He murdered a man.
He tried to fight against the Inquisitors.
How many times is the word “horror” used?
It’s never used.
13
5
Like, every other word.
