The premature burial - Edgar Allan Poe

Why were people often buried alive?

• Relatives drugged and buried them for the inheritance.

• Diseases often gave the appearance of death.

• Revenge.

• All of the above.

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Why was the tomb of the lawyer's wife open years later?

• They suspected it had been robbed.

• They were putting it in a sarcophagus.

• The body had to be examined because it was believed she was murdered.

• They were burying another family member.

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Why did the journalist travel to find the grave of Victorine Lafourcade?

• He wanted to be buried with her.

• He suspected her husband had killed her.

• He suspected that she had faked her death.

• He suspected that she was buried alive.

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What happens once Victorine Lafourcade recovers from her premature burial?

• She goes back to her husband.

• She goes to America by herself.

• She reports to the police that her husband tried to kill her.

• She goes to America with the journalist.

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How did they know the man who was thrown from a horse had been buried alive?

• The man managed to dig himself out of the shallow grave.

• A man felt the earth shifting when he was walking near the grave.

• People heard the man crying out from the vault.

• A friend told the undertaker that the man suffered from catalepsy.

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What finally killed the man thrown from the horse?

• He suffocated trying to get out of his grave.

• A brain injury.

• Bad doctors.

• Fear of his own coffin.

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Which case did not have a happy ending?

• The lawyer's wife's.

• Victorine Lefourcade's.

• The German Officer's.

• The narrator's.

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