“The Pit and the Pendulum” 3. How does the sentencing at the beginning of the story affect the narrator?
A The narrator becomes faint and drifts in and out of
consciousness from the shock, not quite sure what is real
and what is not.
B The narrator becomes furious and is drugged in order to
remove him from the sentencing chamber.
C The narrator becomes faint and starts hallucinating,
preferring his own delusions to the awareness of his fate.
D The narrator becomes instantly depressed and does
nothing to resist his captors, longing for his death and an