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The narrator of this story explains how he knew that one character could not see the opening of a door. A character in this story “held the bedcovers tightly over his head” after a man rushed in yelling “Die! Die!” The narrator of this story describes being more careful on the “eighth night” of entering one character’s room. (15[1])The narrator of this repeatedly asks (15[1])about his (*) madness (10[1])while obsessing over a “vulture eye.” In this story, the sound of one object under the floorboards drives the narrator to confess his murder of the old man to the police. For 10 points, name this short story by Edgar Allen Poe titled for a beating body part. ■END■

ANSWER: “The Tell-Tale Heart
<Literature - American Literature - Short Fiction>
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Snowball Fight 21/11/2025Y3100%67%0%62.00