"The Tell-Tale Heart" Test Review

What point of view is being used when the narrator is a character and uses the pronouns I, me, or we?

• First Person POV

• Second Person POV

• Third Person POV

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

What point of view is being used when the narrator is an outside observer?

• First Person POV

• Second Person POV

• Third Person POV

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

What is the voice that tells the story referred to as?

• Point of View

• Suspense

• Narrator

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

What is the method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction?

• Point of View

• Suspense

• Unreliable Narrator

• Reliable Narrator

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

What is known as the sense of growing tension, fear, excitement?

• Point of View

• Suspense

• Unreliable Narrator

• Reliable Narrator

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The police officers cannot hear the old man’s heart because—

• The narrator is talking too loudly

• They are sitting too far away from the body

• Their senese are not as acute at the narrator’s

• The heart is not actually beating

To prove he is not mad, the narrator—

• Describes how cunning and cautious he is

• Waits until the eighth night to kill the old man

• Says he pities the old man but laughs in his heart

• Hides the old man’s body under the floorboards

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the narrator’s reason for killing the old man?

• The old man has insulted the narrator many times.

• The narrator cannot bear to hear the beating of the old man’s heart.

• The old man’s eye remind the narrator of a vulture’s.

• The narrator hopes to inherit the old man’s treasures.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The use of a first-person narrator in the story —

• allows readers to understand each character’s point of view

• helps to explain how the characters are related to each other

• gives readers insight into the narrator’s mental instability

• illustrates how the old man treats the narrator every day

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which word from paragraph 18 is closest to meaning contempt?

• Agony

• Derision

• Swore

• Hypocritical

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4