Tell Tale Heart

Tell Tale Heart

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52 Qs

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Tell Tale Heart

Tell Tale Heart

Assessment

Quiz

English

7th - 8th Grade

Medium

CCSS
RL.7.4, RL.7.1, RL.7.6

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Created by

Earlisha Branch

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This English quiz, focused on Edgar Allan Poe‘s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart‘ is tailored for 7th - 8th grade ELA classes and was created by educator Earlisha Branch. A quiz designed to support students’ engagement with the story, while analyzing key literary elements like symbolism, tone, narrator reliability, and suspense as a main element of the text. It includes 52 multiple-choice questions that take the student through their own reading experience, encouraging them to closely read and comprehend key narrative moments, including the narrator’s descent into madness, while doing a contextual vocabulary analysis through text-based evidence. Teachers will be able to implement it as a post-reading activity in the classroom or homework assignment that will help evaluate the students’ reading comprehension level. It’s a valuable resource aligned with different study guides and ELA standards that can help students practice the skills needed for citing textual evidence or interpreting narrative structures.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

From what POV is "The Tale-Tell Heart" written?
first person
second person
third person limited
third person unreliable

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To whom is the narrator telling his story?
The readers
The police
The old man
The narrator isn't telling the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does the narrator say about his senses?
They are dull.
They've always been very strong.
They've been sharpened by disease.
They are bothersome.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is it about the old man that bothers the narrator?
His personality
His face
His home
His eye

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does the narrator describe the eye?
He says it is beautiful.
He says it is very focused.
He says it is the eye of a vulture.
He says it is all-seeing.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does the narrator resolve to do to the old man?
quit working for him
murder him
leave his house
gouge his eye out

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Does the narrator hate the old man?
yes
no

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

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