The two details that the author leaves uncertain in this excerpt are:
- why the chateau was abandoned
- how the narrator was injured
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.
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.
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why the chateau was abandoned
why the narrator stopped at the
chateau
who the narrator traveled with
why the narrator slept with the bed
curtains opened
how the narrator was injured
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