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The Pit and the Pendulum
1. What sentence did the court pronounce on the prisoner?
They sentenced him to death.
2. How did the narrator know he was not in a condemned cell?
All the condemned cells in Toledo
3. How did the narrator measure his dungeon?
He tore off the bottom of his robe and placed it on floor like start point until he could complete the circuit.
4. While measuring the dungeon, the prisoner fell asleep. What did he find when woke up?
He found a loaf of bread and a jug of water.
5. What happened while he was walking in a straight line across the cell?
He fell and while his chin rested on the floor his lips and forehead touch nothing.
6. What did the narrator learn about the cell as a result of his fall?
He realized he was at the very edge of a pit.
7. What kind of death had the Inquisition prepared for the prisoner?
That he would have fallen into the pit.
8. What changed in the cell while the narrator slept for the third time?
He could see the objects around his for the first time.
Now He could see the size and shape of his cell.
9. What did he discover when he looked up at the ceiling of the prison?
He saw a figure of Time, holding a huge Pendulum.
10. What did he see when he looked up a next time?
He saw the pendulum moved again very slowly.
11. What new type of death did the narrator realise the Inquisition had prepared for him?
The pendulum with its sharp edge becomes increasingly closer, trying to cut him the chest through his clothes.
12. How did the narrator free himself from the strap?
The rats had eaten the straps he was free.
13. What new form of torture followed the pendulum?
Hundreds of rats leapt onto him and they ran over his throat.
14. What happened at the end of the story?
He was saved by the arm of the French army of General Lasalle.
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