The Tell-Tale Heart Final Test

Who is the author of "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

• Charles Dickens

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Ebenezer Scrooge

• Jacob Marley

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the beating heart is a symbol of the narrator's:

• fear

• passion

• guilt

• humor

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The narrator claims repeatedly that he is not:

• hungry

• anxious

• mad

• happy

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What effect is Poe creating by having the narrator watch the old man sleep for eight days before carrying out his plan?

• irony

• suspense

• establishing motive

• none of the above

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The narrator's claim of sanity lies in the fact that he can tell his story so. . .

• quickly

• camly

• slowly

• enthusiastically

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What is the mood at the beginning of the story?

• joy

• curiosity

• sadness

• panic

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The narrator looked on the old man each night for 6 nights before choosing to kill him.

• True

• False

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On the eighth night, the narrator awakens the old man. What happens next?

• The narrator immediately carries out his plan

• The old man sits awake in fear for many hours.

• The narrator finds himself consoling the old man and gets him back to sleep.

• none of the above

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Which detail should be included in a summary of the story?

• The narrator kills the old man.

• The officers chatted about familiar things.

• The old man was snoring when the narrator crept in to his room.

• The narrator is male.

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Which of the following best describes the narrator?

• He is an old man with a sickly eye.

• He is a kind man who keeps ravens as pets.

• A madman obsessed with another man's sickly eye.

• He is a lonely man without any friends.

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