Tell Tale Heart
Authored by Earlisha Branch
English
7th - 8th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz centers on Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and is designed for middle school students in grades 7-8. The assessment covers multiple layers of literary analysis, beginning with fundamental reading comprehension of plot events, character motivations, and story details, then progressing to more sophisticated concepts including point of view, narrator reliability, and thematic interpretation. Students must demonstrate understanding of literary devices such as the unreliable narrator technique, symbolism of the beating heart, and how Poe creates suspense through psychological elements. The quiz also incorporates vocabulary development through context-based questions featuring words like "audacity," "vehemently," "acute," and "concealment." To succeed, students need strong reading comprehension skills, the ability to analyze character psychology and motivation, understanding of narrative perspective and its effects on storytelling, and the capacity to identify and interpret literary themes such as guilt, madness, and moral consequences. Created by Earlisha Branch, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 7 and 8. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a summative evaluation after students complete reading the story, a review tool before class discussions about unreliable narrators and Gothic literature, or formative assessment to gauge student comprehension before moving to comparative analysis with other Poe works. The quiz can be assigned as homework to reinforce reading or used as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before deeper literary analysis. Teachers can utilize individual question clusters for targeted instruction—plot comprehension questions for struggling readers, vocabulary sections for language development, and higher-order analysis questions for advanced learners. This assessment aligns with Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1 and RL.8.1 for citing textual evidence, RL.7.3 and RL.8.3 for analyzing character development and plot elements, and RL.7.6 and RL.8.6 for analyzing point of view and its effects on the reader's understanding of the text.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
From what POV is "The Tale-Tell Heart" written?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
To whom is the narrator telling his story?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the narrator say about his senses?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is it about the old man that bothers the narrator?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.7.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
How does the narrator describe the eye?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the narrator resolve to do to the old man?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Does the narrator hate the old man?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
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