The Pit and The Pendulum Quiz
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Questions and Answers
1. What is the first line of the story?
o A. There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers...
o B. I was sick-sick unto death with that long agony...
o C. The sentence-the dread sentence of death...
o D. During the fall of the year 1827...
2. What phenomenon does the narrator discuss in great detail?
o A. The subconscious
o B. Swooning
o C. human suffering
o D. painless death
3. When the narrator wakes up what does the narrator think he is in?
o A. a tomb
o B. A wooden box
o C. A wall
o D. The super bowl
4. What does the narrator try to take from his pocket?
· A. Food
· B. Handkerchief
· C. Lock pick
· D. Knife
5. After the narrator passes out for the first time what does he find on the ground?
· A. His knife and some bread
· B. A letter and a rope
· C. A loaf of bread and water
· D. A blanket and soup
6. The first chamber was 50 yards and couldn’t tell what shape it was.
· A. True
· B. False
7. The narrator trips and falls which makes him realize what?
· A. his chin touches the floor, but his lips and upper head didn't touch solid surface
· B. there is another man in the chamber with him
· C. the room is actually 60 yards
· D. his captors have left wine and bread in the middle of the room
8. The narrator becomes scared and decides to stay close to the walls from then on out.
· A. True
· B. False
9. Why does the narrator keep passing out?
· A. He was tired
· B. He just wanted to sleep
· C. The waster was drugged
· D. He didn't sleep again
10. What was the prison cell made out of?
· A. Wood
· B. Iron
· C. Rock
· D. Brick
11. When the narrator was bound to wood what body part(s) were still free?
· A. head and left arm
· B. his ankles
· C. his arms
· D. right arm and abdominal area
12. What animals started to gather around the narrator?
· A. Lions
· B. Rats
· C. Deamons
· D. Birds
13. What does the narrator notice is on theceiling?
· A. More rats
· B. Birds
· C. A bell
· D. A pendulum
14. Where was the pendulum going to cut?
· A. The neck
· B. The stomach
· C. The heart
· D. The legs
15. Moments before the pendulum was to hit him what did the narrator do that he didn't in a long time?
· A. Pray
· B. Think
· C. Cry
· D. Smile
16. The narrator frees himself by using the pendulum to cut the ropes.
· A. True
· B. False
17. Was he stillimprisonedafter he escaped the pendulum?
· A. Yes
· B. No
18. What shape did the chamber walls change into?
· A. Square
· B. Circle
· C. Dodecahedron
· D. Diamond
19. The story takes place AFTER the inquisition?
· A. True
· B. False
20. Is the narrator killed?
· A. Yes
· B. No
21. Who saves the narrator?
· A. The French army
· B. The British army
· C. The English army
· D. The starfleer
22. The story takes places in Spain
· A. True
· B. False
· 23. What would you have done if you were strapped to the wood and there was a pendulum about to cut through you?
· 24. Do you think you would stay calm and think like the narrator or just freak out and panic?
· 25. Why do you think the narrator is so calm when he was under pressure?