The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Which of the narrator's senses does he say is most acute?

• sight

• hearing

• touch

• smell

Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?

• the old man had hurt him

• the old man's eye vexed him

• the narrator wants his gold

• the narrator hated the old man

Which of the following statements about the narrator is true?

• the narrator's insanity makes him a reliable narrator

• the narrator's insanity makes him an unreliable narrator

• the narrator's impersonal style makes him an objective narrator

• the narrator's use of the word "you" makes him a second-person narrator

What figurative language device is used in the following line? "I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye."

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

Why does the old man sit up in bed and say, "It is nothing but the wind in the chimney --it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp." ?

• the old man can't get back to sleep due to the noise

• the old man is trying to comfort the narrator

• the old man is narrating his dreams

• the old man is trying to calm his own fears

What makes the eighth night different from or more important than the previous seven nights?

• the narrator hears the old man complain

• the old man hears the narrator cough

• the old man is awake, his eye open

• all of the above

How does the narrator murder the old man?

• the narrator stabs the old man in the heart

• the narrator dismembers the old man while he's alive

• the narrator gouges out the old man's eyes

• the narrator suffocates the old man with the mattress

Where does the narrator hide the old man's corpse?

• in the basement

• in the floor

• in the closet

• under the bed

What do we learn about the narrator when he asks the police officers to sit and rest in the same room where he's hidden the body?

• he's careless

• he's confident

• he's rude

What does the narrator do when he hears the anxiety-provoking sound as he's talking to the police?

• he pretends not to hear anything

• he rushes the officers out of the room

• he talks loudly and paces the floor

• he asks the officers if they hear it, too