Questão de Inglês - The text below is one of a variety of famous horror stories in the USA

3 - The text below is one of a variety of famous horror stories in the USA. Read the text to answer the letter A and B.

Man With Two Faces 

Edward Mordrake Edward Mordrake, an English nobleman, was born with he face of a parasitic twin on the back of his head. He was known as the “Man with two faces”. The face appeared to be conscious of it, ‘If Edward screamed, it would smirk and laugh in silence.’ 

Often the face will quietly gibber without ceasing. Edward said it was never sleeping but kept him awake with whispers of other things it was just thinking about. 

[… ]“Man With Two Faces” demanded that the face should be destroyed before his burial’ as his awful whisperings remain in his grave’ 

Edward Mordrake (or Mordake as he was originally called) was a young, wealthy, and good-looking English nobleman who had everything from life that one might hope for. But, an awful curse came with all those wonderful blessings. Mordake possessed a horrific disfigurement in addition to his perfect, natural face: another face on the back of his head. 

Given the elegance of the odd face, there was no question that it possessed its own intellect of a malignant nature’. His “devil brother” constantly troubled Edward Mordrake, who held him up all night such things as they’re just thinking about in hell. Edward wrote a note ordering the evil face to be destroyed after his death, ‘so that it can end its awful whispering in his grave.’

Vocabulary: smirk: sorriso pretensioso - ceasing: cessando - whisperings: sussurros - disfigurement: desfiguração - after: depois.  

a) Why is this story considered a horror tale?

b) According to the text match the columns: 

(1) The face quietly gibbers to Ed.

(2) The face let Edward sleep without whispers.

(3) The evil brother was making trouble for Ed.

( ) Constantly

( ) Never

( ) Often

RESPOSTA:

A) This story is considered a horror tale for besides being scary to have another head behind yours, the second head had an evil intellect that haunted and brought problems to Edward. It all made Edward go crazy and take his own life.

B)  

( 3) Constantly

( 2) Never

(1 ) Often