Tell Tale Heart Review

How does the narrator describe the old man's eye?

• It is like an eagle

• It is like a vulture

• It is missing

• It is green

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What did the madness/craziness do to the narrator's senses?

• Destroyed them

• He got a stronger sense of smell

• Sharpened them

• Nothing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What did the old man do when he heard the narrator make a noise?

• Started attacking the narrator

• Nothing, he did not wake up

• Walked into the hallway

• Sprung up in bed and cried out, "Who's there?"

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What effect is Poe creating by having the narrator watch the old man sleep for 7 nights before the narrator carries out his plan?

• Irony

• Flashback

• Tone

• Suspense

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What happened after the narrator opened the lantern a tiny bit on the 8th night?

• The light shone right on the old man's eye

• He tripped and fell into the door

• They started fighting

• He stayed there until the next morning watching him sleep

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the main conflict in the story an example of?

• man vs man

• man vs self

• man vs nature

• man vs society

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How does the narrator react to the police officer's request to search the house?

• Terrified and nervous

• Calm and confident

• Screaming and yelling

• He shuts the door in their face

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How did the narrator kill the old man?

• Cut him up

• Strangled him

• Suffocated him by throwing his mattress on top of him

• He had the policemen kill him

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Who wrote 'The Tell Tale Heart'

• R. J. Palacio

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Mark Twain

• J. K. Rowling

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Why did the policemen show up?

• It was just a routine check-in

• They came to arrest the narrator

• Because they were good friends with the old man

• Because the neighbors reported hearing a shriek

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CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.3