Tell-Tale Heart Review

Who is the author of the short story?

• the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart

• Edgar Allan Poe

• both of these

• none of these

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is the point-of-view of the short story?

• first-person

• second-person

• third-person

• none of these

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Who is the narrator of this story?

• the old man

• a police officer

• an unnamed murderer

• the author

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the relationship between the narrator and the old man?

• the old man is the narrator's father

• the old man is the narrator's grandfather

• the narrator is the old man's neighbor

• the narrator is the old man's caretaker

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?

• he wanted his money

• the old man's eye vexed the narrator

• the old man was mad

• the narrator was being paid to kill the old man

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How does the narrator kill the old man?

• with a gun

• with a knife

• by strangling him

• by suffocating him

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What did the narrator do several nights before he killed the old man?

• he planned out his murder

• he spied on him in his sleep

• he stopped feeding the old man

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Why did the narrator decide to kill the old man on the 8th night?

• he had planned it that way

• 8 was a magical number to him

• that night the old man woke up and he was afraid of being caught

• that was the night he saw his eye

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

"His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness" is a ...

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"I tried how steadily I could maintain the ray upon the eye. Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant." What does this metaphor compare? (select two)

• heart

• louder

• tattoo

• ray

• eye

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10