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"The Tell-Tale Heart" Review

Authored by Jordan Williams

English

6th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 16+ times

"The Tell-Tale Heart" Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the point of view of the story?

1st Person

3rd Person Objective

3rd Person Omniscient

3rd Person Limited

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is an “unreliable narrator”?

A narrator without a name

A narrator with an angry voice

A narrator that cannot be trusted

A narrator from the past

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which excerpt BEST represents suspense?

“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain;”

“I undid the lantern cautiously – oh, so cautiously”

“I had my head in and was about to open the lantern”

“When I had waited a long time”

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What faulty argument does the narrator use in this story?

He is employed and was working during the murder.

He has never met the old man, so he couldn’t kill him.

He is sneaky, and madmen aren’t sneaky.

He is wise, and madmen aren’t smart.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why did the narrator wait until the 8th night to kill the old man?

He was waiting for a full moon.

He was waiting for the old man to admit his mistake.

He was waiting for the old man to open his eye.

He was waiting for the old man to shriek.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How did the narrator murder the old man?

He smothered him with the bed.

He stabbed him with a knife.

He choked him in his sleep.

He poisoned him.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why did the narrator freak out while he was talking to the police?

The police knew he killed the old man and were mocking him.

The narrator kept hearing the old man’s heart beating and thought the police could hear it too.

The police searched the house and found blood in the bathroom.

The narrator kept hearing the old man calling out to him from the floor, and thought the police could hear it too.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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