The Oval
Portrait
by Edgar Allen Poe
The chateau into which my
valet had ventured to make
forcible entrance, rather
than permit me, in my
desperately wounded
condition, to pass a night in
the open air, was one of
those piles of commingled
gloom and grandeur which
have so long frowned
among the Appenines, not
less in fact than in the fancy
of Mrs. Radcliffe. To all
appearance it had been
temporarily and very lately
abandoned. We established
ourselves in one of the
smallest and least
sumptuously furnished
apartments. It lay in a
remote turret of the building
Use the passage to
answer the question.
Which detail from the
excerpt infers that the
narrator and his valet
are trespassing at the
chateau?
a. They stay in a
remote part of
the chateau.
b. The chateau is
much different
from other
buildings in the
area.
c. They stop at the
chateau without
planning to do
so.
d. The chateau
appears to be
abandoned.