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QuizMultiple Choice

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Question 9 • NY-Common Core ELA 12

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
It features a bright, inviting setting.
B
It explores fear and strong emotions.
C
It includes a supernatural creature.
D
It focuses on science and reason.
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