The apartment was in the wildest disorder - the furniture broken and thrown about in all directions.

The apartment was in the wildest disorder - the furniture broken and thrown about in all directions.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

By Edgar Allan Poe

“…The apartment was in the wildest disorder - the furniture broken and thrown about in all directions. There was only one bedstead; and from this the bed had been removed, and thrown into the middle of the floor. On a chair lay a razor, besmeared with blood. On the hearth were two or three long and thick tresses of grey human hair, also dabbled in blood, and seeming to have been pulled out by the roots. Upon the floor were found four Napoleons, an ear-ring of topaz, three large silver spoons, three smaller of métal d’Alger, and two bags, containing nearly four thousand francs in gold. The drawers of a bureau, which stood in one corner, were open, and had been, apparently, rifled, although many articles still remained in them. A small iron safe was discovered under the bed (not under the bedstead). It was open, with the key still in the door. It had no contents beyond a few old letters, and other papers of little consequence.

Of Madame L’Espanaye no traces were here seen; but an unusual quantity of soot being observed in the fire-place, a search was made in the chimney, and (horrible to relate!) the corpse of the daughter, head downward, was dragged therefrom; it having been thus forced up the narrow aperture for a considerable distance. The body was quite warm. Upon examining it, many excoriations were perceived, no doubt occasioned by the violence with which it had been thrust up and disengaged. Upon the face were many severe scratches, and, upon the throat, dark bruises, and deep indentations of finger nails, as if the deceased had been throttled to death.

After a thorough investigation of every portion of the house, without farther discovery, the party made its way into a small paved yard in the rear of the building, where lay the corpse of the old lady, with her throat so entirely cut that, upon an attempt to raise her, the head fell off. The body, as well as the head, was fearfully mutilated - the former so much so as scarcely to retain any semblance of humanity.

To this horrible mystery there is not as yet, we believe, the slightest clew…”

Edgar Allan Poe – The Murders in the Rue Morgue

MACKENZIE 2011.2 - QUESTÃO 13

The bodies found in the Rue Morgue,

a) were all neat and clean.

b) had been awfully mistreated.

c) had all been decapited.

d) had all been found in the chimney of the place.

e) had all been missing for more than a week.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:

- The excerpt, from The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, is describing

GABARITO:

b) had been awfully mistreated.

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