Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart.”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.
Answer
A
The narrator is very calm as he begins to relate all of the events of the story.
B
The narrator worries that his dreadful nervousness has caused him to go mad.
C
The narrator says he is not mad, but he claims he can hear all the sounds on heaven and earth.
D
The narrator has sharpened senses that allow him to hear sounds that others cannot.