"The Tell-Tale Heart" Question Support and Reading Check

Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?

• The narrator hopes to inherit the old man's house

• The old man had gone to the country and left him alone.

• The narrator thought the old man's eye was evil.

• The narrator was exhausted from caring for the old man night and day.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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Which is the one false statement?

• He caught any blood that might be evidence in a tub.

• He hid the body under the floorboards.

• The neighbors didn't hear anything.

• He planned the murder very carefully and waited until the time was right.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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Which statement can be proven?

• The narrator is a man.

• The narrator is a woman.

• The narrator is a relative.

• The narrator was the old man's caregiver.

• None of these.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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Which example shows the narrator's anxiety or fear?

• Nervous, very nervous. But why would you say I am mad?

• I undid the lantern cautiously-so cautiously-(for the hinges creaked).

• I took three planks from the floor of the chamber and placed all between the scantlings.

• And now in the dead hour of the night....The old man was dead. Yes, he was stone, stone dead.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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Which item depicts vivid descriptions of dramatic sights and sounds?

• He had the eye of a vulture--a pale blue eye with a film.

• It was open-wide, wide open.

• I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph.

• But the beating grew louder! louder!

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CCSS.RI.8.4

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The disease had sharpened my senses not dulled them. Causes me to trust or be suspicious of the narrator.

• trust

• be suspicious

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I heard all things in heaven and in earth. I heard many things in hell causes me to trust or be suspicious of the narrator.

• trust

• be suspicious

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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The primary reason the reader cannot be sure what happened is that

• The narrator is insane.

• The narrator is a murderer.

• There is a third person narrator.

• There is a first person narrator.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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The narrator visited the old man seven nights in a row because

• The narrator had to summon the courage to kill the old man.

• The narrator enjoyed tormenting the old man.

• The narrator was superstitious and thought seven was a special number.

• The narrator had to wait until the eye was open to murder the old man.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The police could or could not hear the heart beating.

• could

• could not

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