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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.



"The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

Question
Use the passage to answer the question.

Which detail from the excerpt infers that the narrator and his valet are trespassing at the chateau?

(1 point)
Responses

The chateau is much different from other buildings in the area.
The chateau is much different from other buildings in the area.

The chateau appears to be abandoned.
The chateau appears to be abandoned.

They stay in a remote part of the chateau.
They stay in a remote part of the chateau.

They stop at the chateau without planning to do so.
They stop at the chateau without planning to do so.
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Answer 1

The chateau appears to be abandoned.

Explanation: The narrator says the building "had been temporarily and very lately abandoned," and the valet "ventured to make forcible entrance," implying they entered without permission.