Question

Read the passage.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this, and nothing more.”

In this excerpt from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, what is the speaker doing when he hears a knock at the door?

A. Reading
B. Pacing
C. Weeping
D. Sleeping

Answer 1

Pi would say pacing maybe?

Answer 2

In the excerpt from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker is doing the following when he hears a knock at the door:

A. Reading.

The passage "...while I pondered, weak and weary/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore..." shows it. The speaker stated he was "pondering", that is, giving deep consideration, to "a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore", that is, to an old-fashioned and interesting book on some ancient knowledge.