The Tell-Tale Heart

What poem is Edgar Allan Poe most famous for?

• "The Raven"

• "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"

• "Mother to Son"

• "Not My Bones"

What does the narrator say that his disease has done to him?

• made him nervous

• sharpened his senses

• turned him into a murderer

• caused him to lie

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Why does the narrator wait a week before killing the old man?

• The narrator does not see the old man's eye when he spies on him at night.

• The narrator is having too much fun frightening the old man the old man to kill him quickly.

• The narrator wants to wait for the darkest night of the month to do it.

• The narrator feels guilty about taking a human life.

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The narrator describe what as "a watch enveloped in cotton"?

• the sound of a heartbeat

• time passing slowly

• waiting impatiently

• the body of the old man

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When the audience understands something about the story while it is unknown to the character, that is...

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

The narrator shows that he is unreliable when he...

• explains that he did not kill the old man for his money

• describes his movements on the night of the murder

• says he is sane while saying how cleverly he hid the body

• confesses that he is nervous in the beginning of the story

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What is the narrator suddenly afraid of when he is caught watching the old man on the eighth night?

• the old man's eye

• the neighbor's hearing the old man's heartbeat

• the deathwatch beetles in the walls

• that he will not be able to kill the old man

The old man is killed in the story when he is _________ by the narrator.

• dismembered

• stabbed

• suffocated

• strangled

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The author creates suspense by...

• revealing the ways the narrator is kind to the old man

• explaining why the narrator hid the body after the murder

• saying that the narrator loved the old man

• describing what the narrator did before the murder

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What does the narrator believe he hears at the end of the story?

• the old man's heart beating

• his heart beating

• things in hell

• the old man's watch

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