The Pit And The Pendulum

CATHOLIC BILINGUAL SCHOOL
2012

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT



FIRST DELIVERY OF PORTFOLIO III TERM.

July 24th (Tuesday) GRADES 8&9

|Dear students this is thequestionnaire that you must solve. Remember you have to read the book to answer the following |
|questions. PLEASE DO NOT COPY THE ANSWERS FROM OTHER CLASSMATE OR YOU WILLFAIL THE PORTFOLIO GOAL. |


Answer these questions.

1. How does the storyteller first find out about the pit?

2. How is time going tokill the storyteller?

3. How many seconds pass between each swing of the pendulum at the end of the torture?

4. How do the rats help the storyteller?

5. Write ashort review of the story in 150 words as minimum.

SOLUTION

1. They found the pit in the center of the jail, and moving his hand.

2. The time is an old man witha scythe sharp and the scythe cut him.

3. Six and seven seconds.

4. The rats started to bite the rope with its sharp teeth with the meat and the rope.

5.The story teller can’t see light.

He started to remember he was in Toledo, Spain. He must be in a jail in a prison cell. He goes around the cell but when he goesto the center found a pit.

He can see evil pictures and he sees the time but he see the time.

The time was an old man with a long beard; in her hand, hadan hourglass with two containers. The time also held a long, sharp scythe but this wasn’t pictures.

He spread the spiced meat on the rope and the rats that was nearto him started to bite the rope with their sharp teeth.

A soldier in uniform of the fresh army took his hand and backs out him the pit and he was free of the jail.