Show:
The Pit and the Pendulum #1
The Pit and the Pendulum #2
The Pit and the Pendulum #3
100
What sentence have the judges given the narrator?
What is death?
100
When the narrator awoke, what did he find beside him?
What is a loaf and a pitcher?
100
What came up out of the well in the floor?
What are rats?
200
What does the narrator use to mark his place in the dungeon?
What is a piece of cloth from his robe?
200
Why had the narrator not opened his eyes?
What is he is afraid of what he might see?
200
What does the image on the ceiling appear to be holding?
What is a pendulum?
300
What does the narrator estimate the size of the dungeon to be?
What is 50 yards?
300
What does the narrator rub over the bandage that ties him to the wooden framework?
What is oil from the meat?
300
What are the walls of the dungeon made of?
What is iron?
400
When the narrator trips and falls, what does he notice beneath him?
What is a pit?
400
How does the narrator escape the death of the pendulum?
What is the rats gnawed at the bandage until it broke?
400
Who caught the narrator's hand?
Who is General LaSalle?
500
When the narrator is bound to a wooden framework, what parts of his body is he able to move?
What is his head and left arm?
500
What happens to the walls of the dungeon?
What is they become hot and start to move toward him?
500
When the narrator looked up at the ceiling a second time, what was descending?
What is the pendulum?