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The Tell-Tale Heart Quiz

The document is a quiz about the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. It contains 15 multiple choice questions that test the reader's understanding of key details in the story, including that it is narrated in first person by an unnamed man who kills an old man with a pale blue eye out of hatred, then attempts to hide the body by dismantling it and hiding the pieces under the floorboards. However, he is ultimately undone by the sound of the old man's heart beating beneath the floor, which causes him to confess to police who were called by a neighbor who heard the old man's shriek.

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The Tell-Tale Heart Quiz

The document is a quiz about the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. It contains 15 multiple choice questions that test the reader's understanding of key details in the story, including that it is narrated in first person by an unnamed man who kills an old man with a pale blue eye out of hatred, then attempts to hide the body by dismantling it and hiding the pieces under the floorboards. However, he is ultimately undone by the sound of the old man's heart beating beneath the floor, which causes him to confess to police who were called by a neighbor who heard the old man's shriek.

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The Tell-Tale Heart Quiz

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2.

Name__________________________________________________________

Which of the following authors wrote The Tell-Tale Heart?


A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. J.K. Rowling

C. Roald Dahl
D. W.W. Jacobs

The Tell-Tale Heart is told from which point of view?


A. First person
B. Second person

C. Third person limited


D. Third person omniscient

3.

Which of the following terms means the act of hiding something or pretending?
A. Conceive
C. Dissimulation
B. Cunningly
D. Hearken

4.

In what way has the old man previously wronged the narrator?
A. By cheating him in business
B. By humiliating him in public

C. By refusing to lend him money


D. In absolutely no way

5.

Which adjective does the narrator uses to refer to the old mans eye?
A. Creepy
C. Evil
B. Dangerous
D. Insane

6.

The narrator compares the lantern's ray falling on the eye to


A. a diving eagle.
B. an arrow shot from a bow.

7.

How does the murderer get rid of the victim's body?


A. He buries it inside of the walls.
B. He cuts it up and buries it under the
floorboards.

C. a raindrop.
D. a spider's thread.
C. He dissolves it in very strong acid.
D. He dumps it into a river.

8.

The narrator claims that his attitude toward the old man has always been
A. critical.
C. loving.
B. hateful.
D. malicious.

9.

What is the definition of the term vehemently?


A. Showing strong feelings or intensity
B. Hiding something

C. Listening carefully
D. Making an assumption

10. After letting the police into the old man's room, where does the narrator sit?
A. Between the police officers
C. Directly above the hidden corpse
B. He remains standing.
D. On the bed
11. The narrator was ______ by the old man's eye. It disturbed him greatly.
A. Conceived
C. Vexed
B. Stifled
D. Waned
12. Why does the narrator kill the old man?
A. Because he wants the old mans gold
B. Because of the old mans pale blue eye

C. Because the old man was evil


D. Because the old man wronged him

13. On which night does the narrator finally kill the old man?
A. Eighth
B. First

C. Seventh
D. Twelfth

14. Which of the following is a synonym of the term sagacity?


A. Ridicule
B. Silence

C. Violence
D. Wisdom

15. Why do the police show up at the end of the story?


A. A neighbor heard a shriek.
B. The narrator calls them.

C. The old man was a wanted man.


D. They were patrolling the neighborhood.

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