PART B: Which of the following quotes from "The Tell-Tale Heart E" best supports the answer to Part A and provides evidence for the conflict between the narrator and the old man?

• "The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell." (paragraph 1)

• "I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him." (paragrpah 7)

• "But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me --the sound would be heard by a neighbour! The old man's hour had come!" (paragraph 11)

• "Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!" (paragraph 18)

The quote that best supports the answer to Part A and provides evidence for the conflict between the narrator and the old man is: "Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!" (paragraph 18) This quote shows the narrator's increasing anxiety and guilt as he hears the sound of the old man's heart beating, leading him to eventually confess to his crime.