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The Tell-Tale Heart

Authored by Donna Fosbrink

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 26+ times

The Tell-Tale Heart
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What had madness done to the narrator's senses?

Sharpened them
Destroyed them
Dulled them
Nothing

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the reason that the narrator killed the old man?

His house
Money
His eye
He insulted the narrator

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why couldn't the man kill the narrator on the first night?

The eye was closed
He didn't have the courage
There was someone else in the house
He couldn't find an axe

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

3. You can evaluate the narrator's state of mind as unreliable when he

explains that he did not kill the old man for his money.

describes the movements on the night of the murder.

says he is sane, but then describes how cleverly he hides the body.

confesses that he is nervous in the beginning of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The author creates suspense by

revealing the ways in which the narrator is kind to the old man.

explaining why the narrator hid the body after the murder

saying that the narrator loved the old man.

describing what the narrator did before the murder.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why is the narrator upset with the police at the end of the story?

The police find the old man's body.

The police accuse him of murder.

He thinks the police are making fun of him.

He thinks the police are trying to kill him.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To conceive of something is to

think of it.

tell about it.

dream about it.

walk toward it.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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