For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick's paintings is described as follows: "A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth." What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?
Correct answer: A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
- A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
- B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
- C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
- D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.
Explanation
The long, deep vault foreshadows the burial of Madeline in the stone family tomb beneath the House of Usher. The story does not involve drowning, an escape tunnel, or the narrator becoming trapped in catacombs.
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