Question

Select the correct text in the passage. Which two sentences contribute to the overall eerie mood of the adapted excerpt from "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe? It sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with the warm drink. We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. I paused again, and this time I made bold to seize Fortunato by an arm above the elbow. "The nitre!" I said; "see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones. Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough—" "It is nothing," he said; "let us go on." I broke and reached him a flagon. He emptied it at a breath. His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand. I looked at him in surprise.

Answer 1

The correct answer is "We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs".

Edgar Allan Poe creates a dark mood with this sentence, the dark and dangerous catacombs give us a terrifying idea about the atmosphere and the felling characters most have.

Answer 2

The correct answer is : We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. & The drops of moisture trickle among the bones. Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough—".