Read the selection below from the short story 'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe and answer the question that follows. 'here was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.' 'Another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more. 'By long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the sound of my own voice. 'I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me. Which excerpt portrays the narrator's madness best? A. By long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. To the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. Another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which I had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the Inquisition.

I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which I had escaped. Which torture does the passage above reference? A. Read the selection below from the short story 'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe and use your knowledge of the story to answer the question that follows.

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