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What is the setting of 'The Pit and the Pendulum'?
Who is the protagonist of the story?
What religious group is in power during the time of the story?The Spanish InquisitionThe TemplarsThe Jesuits
Which animal aids in the protagonist's escape?RatDogCatBird
What senses does Poe comprehensively use to describe the narrator's experiences?
What does the pendulum symbolize?The inevitable approach of deathThe ticking of timeThe judgments of the InquisitionA tool of science
What saves the narrator just as the walls are about to force him into the pit?
How the narrator discovers the pit?By almost falling into itHe saw itHe was told about itHe read about it
At the start of the story, why is the narrator fainting?
What is attached to the pendulum?A sharp bladeA bucket of waterA weightA sack of sand