Click to review the online content. Then answer the question(s) below, using complete sentences. Scroll down to view additional questions. "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe What are the three ways that the narrator`s captors attempt to kill him?

falling into the pit.

being sliced open by the blade/pendulum.

being crushed by fiery walls closing in on him.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.