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The Tell-Tale Heart
Test Description: The story about Edgar Allen Poe
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is it about the old man that scares and angers the narrator of the Tell Tale Heart
A
His old house
B
His clouded blue eye
2) What does the old man in The Tell Tale Heart do when he hears a noise on the eighth night?
A
He sits up and asks who is there
B
He begins to sob with terror
3) The narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart chuckles at the old man's fear. What does this response tell you about the narrator?
A
He is impatient
B
He is cruel
4) Where does the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart hide the old man's body?
A
Under the floorboards
B
Under a pile of blankets
5) In The Tell Tale Heart, why does a neighbor call the police to the house?
A
He heard a shriek
B
He heard a loud, repetitive thumping
6) What does the narrator of the Tell Tale heart want people to think about him
A
He wants people to think he is pleasant
B
He wants people to think he is intelligent and patient
7) On the eighth night, the narrator of the The Tell Tale Heart grows furious. How do the old man's feelings contrast with the narrator's?
A
The old man is fearful
B
The old man is joyful
8) As The Tell Tale Heart progresses, how does the narrator's mood change?
A
He becomes increasingly puzzled
B
He becomes increasingly excited
9) Why does the narrator finally confess to the murder?
A
He thinks the officers hear the heartbeat and a re mocking him
B
He wants to shock the police officers
10) Which word is closest in meaning to acute?
A
Sharp
B
Dull
11) Expressing ridicule or contempt can be called
A
Derision
B
Attention
12) Ture! nervous- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my sense-not-destroyed-not dulled them. What statement about the narrator is not reasonable?
A
The narrator is probably tired
B
The narrator is nervous
13) Why does the narrator of the Tell Tale Heart want to kill the old man?
A
He hates the old man's clouded blue eye
B
He wants the old man's money
14) Why does the narrator of the Tell Tale Heart greet the old man so heartily every morning?
A
To reassure the old man
B
Because he is a cheerful fellow
15) On what character traits does the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart pride himself?
A
His intelligence and his patience
B
his abilities to lie and steal
16) On opening the door to the old man's room on the eighth night, the narrator feels
A
Unexpectedly frightened
B
Unexpectedly powerful
17) What is different about the old man's reaction to the narrator's intrusion on the eighth night in Tell Tale Heart?
A
He wakes up and asks who is there
B
He is armed
18) I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at the heart. What characteristic of the narrator is evident in that sentence?
A
Insanity
B
Cruelty
19) Why does the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart cast a beam of light on the old man's face?
A
To shock the old man
B
To look at the old man's eye
20) In The Tell Tale Heart, how do the narrator's feelings contract with the old man's?
A
The narrator feels fury toward the old man, and the old man feels fear
B
The narrator is afraid of the old man, and the old man is confident
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