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The Tell Tale Heart
Test Description: This game will help you to review facts about Edgar Allan Poe and information and vocabulary from his story.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What year was E.A. Poe born?
A
1974
B
1985
C
1890
D
1809
2) Which works below were written by Edgar Allan Poe?
A
The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven
B
The Hunger Games Trilogy
C
The Odyssey and The Lying Heart
D
Frankenstein and Death By Scrabble
3) Where did Edgar Allan Poe die?
A
Baltimore
B
Virginia
C
New York
D
West Point
4) How much money did Poe's most beloved work, The Raven earn him?
A
$15
B
$185,000
C
$10,000
D
$150
5) Which of the narrator's senses does he say is most acute?
A
hearing
B
smell
C
touch
D
sight
6) Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?
A
The old man's eye vexed him
B
The narrator hated the old man
C
The old man had hurt him
D
The narrator wants his gold
7) What is the ultimate irony in the Tell-Tale Heart?
A
The narrator has over-acuteness of the senses
B
The old man kills the narrator
C
The narrator has a heart attack
D
The narrator tells on himself, giving away the murder
8) Why didn't the narrator kill the old man on the first, second, or seventh nights? Why did it take so long?
A
The old man was asleep and the eye was closed
B
The narrator was clumsy
C
The old man isn't in his bed
9) What figurative language device is used in the following line?...because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.
A
idiom
B
metaphor
C
simile
D
personification
10) Where does the narrator hide the old man's corpse?
A
under the bed
B
in the basement
C
in the closet
D
in the flooring
11) What does the narrator do when he hears the anxiety-provoking sound as he's talking to the police?
A
he runs out of the room and cries
B
he talks loudly and paces the floor heavily
C
he rushes the officers out of the room
D
he locks the officers in the closet
12) Why does the narrator thin the police officers don't hear the noise?
A
he thinks they are old and hard of hearing
B
he thinks they are too scared to say anything
C
he thinks they're mocking him by pretending not to hear it
D
he thinks that they're too far away to hear it
13) Which of the following is the best meaning behind the symbolism of the beating heart heard by the narrator?
A
the ticking of a pocket watch
B
The raven tapping Nevermore
C
the narrator's guilt
D
the old man knocking on the floorboards
14) Which is the best description of the mood of the story?
A
hopeful
B
creepy
C
lively
D
cheerful
15) Vex means to...
A
easy-going, calm, peaceful
B
showing an excessive pride in oneself
C
troubled, distressed, irritated
16) derision means...
A
ridicule or mockery
B
noisy by nature
C
extremely beautiful and typically delicate
17) Concealment means...
A
a means of hiding, to hide
B
give intellectual, moral, and social instruction
C
in plain sight
18) acuteness means...
A
interpret(something or someone) wrongly
B
unequal pieces
C
very keen, serious, sharp
19) vehemently means...
A
emit or cause to emit sound
B
extremely excitable
C
in a forceful manner
20) audacity means...
A
bold courage, daring in arrogance
B
radio connection
C
weak, scared, timid
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