The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

"Above all was the sense of hearing acute." What does the narrator mean by this?

• The old man could always hear him coming when he walked down the hall.

• The narrator couldn't hear anything.

• The old man could only hear certain sounds.

• The narrator believed that his sense of hearing was unusually strong.

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True or False: the narrator knows that he is a madman.

• True

• False

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How does the narrator try to convince the listener that he is not in fact a madman?

• By showing the listener how cunning and detailed his plans were.

• He shows the listener how he dresses in normal clothes and speaks in normal ways.

• He tries to get the listener's sympathy

• By arguing that the old man needed to die.

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What is the best evidence to support your answer in question 3?

• "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing."

• "Would a madman have been so wise as this?"

• If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for concealment of the body."

• "Have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but an over-acuteness of the senses?"

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What does the narrator mean when he says, "And this I did for seven long nights -- every night just at midnight -- but I found his eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work?"

• He wanted the old man to look at him while he killed him.

• He needed to see the eye in order to go ahead and kill the man.

• He kept forgetting the knife he was going to use as the murder weapon.

• He was afraid the eye would see through him if it opened.

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True or False: We can infer that the narrator does not sleep well and deals with imsomnia.

• True

• False

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What is the best evidence to support your answer in question 6? Select all that apply.

• The narrator is insane.

• The narrator is up at midnight every night.

• The man has oftened groaned with terror in the middle of the night.

• The man is afraid of Death.

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"Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased." What does "tattoo" mean in this context?

• skin art

• bloodflow

• pain

• a rhythmic drumming or beating

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How can we infer the old man was killed?

• Suffocation

• Strangling

• Knife

• Bazooka

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Why does the author have the narrator say "he was stone, stone dead...He was stone dead." Why the repetition? Select all that apply.

• Emphasis

• As if the narrator was assuring himself that the man was actually dead.

• To indicate how the man died.

• No reason

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