a. who the narrator traveled with
c. why the chateau was abandoned
The Oval Portrait
by Edgar Allen Poe
The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make
forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately
wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was
one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur
which have so long frowned among the Appenines, not
less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe. To all
appearance it had been temporarily and very lately
abandoned. We established ourselves in one of the
smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. It
lay in a remote turret of the building. Its decorations were
rich, yet tattered and antique. Its walls were hung with
tapestry and bedecked with manifold and multiform
armorial trophies, together with an unusually great number
of very spirited modern paintings in frames of rich golden
arabesque. In these paintings, which depended from the
walls not only in their main surfaces, but in very many
nooks which the bizarre architecture of the chateau
rendered necessary—in these paintings my incipient
delirium, perhaps, had caused me to take deep interest;
so that I bade Pedro to close the heavy shutters of the
room—since it was already night—to light the tongues of a
tall candelabrum which stood by the head of my bed—and
to throw open far and wide the fringed curtains of black
velvet which enveloped the bed itself.
"The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe
Use the passage from “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar
Allen Poe to answer the question.
Which detail does the author leave uncertain in this
excerpt? Select the two correct answers.
a. who the narrator traveled with
b. why the narrator stopped at the chateau
c. why the chateau was abandoned
d. why the narrator slept with the bed curtains
opened
e. how the narrator was injured
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