Which passage is part of the climax of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat"?
A. Upon its head...sat the hideous beast...I had walled the monster up with the tomb!
B. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
C. I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat and deliberately cut one of his Eyes from the socket!
D. I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feeling of others.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. 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. 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. i had been reserved for the latter. 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. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive