Short Story Review TTTH/WCRAM/ToA/TWU/TMB

What is it about the old man that scares and angers the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

• The old man's friendly smile
• The old man's clouded blue eye

• The old man's kind words
• The old man's gentle demeanor

  "True--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them. ; The Tell-Tale Heart

From the quote above, which of the following statements is not reasonable to accept?

• The narrator is probably tired

• The narrator is probably insane

• The narrator is probably nervous

• The narrator probably has a disease

What sound is being described in the following passage from "TTTH"? 

       "...a low, dull, quick sound, such as a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."

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  The beating heart

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  The distant roar of the ocean

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  The narrator's watch ticking

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  The pounding of the police at the door

     "It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed." The Tell-Tale Heart

What can you infer about the narrator from the above statement?

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  He is very tired

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  He is very intelligent

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  He is very cautious

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  He is very frightened

The sound that drives the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" to confess is

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  Created by the police to trap the narrator

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  Coming from the neighbors next door

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  A shutter beating rhythmically in the wind

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  Possibly the narrator's heart pounding

In "Who Can Replace a Man?", why have most of the humans died?

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  The sun lost it's warming power

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  They killed one another in a world war

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  They ran out of food

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  The water source dried up

How are the Badlands in "WCRAM?" a problem for the machines?

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  Grasses get caught in their low chassis

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  River water causes their parts to rust

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  They get caught in the dried crevices

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  The hills are harder for them to climb

At the start of  "WCRAM?", what is the setting?

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  A remote, mountain cave

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  A barren, cracked wasteland

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  A gray, worn out field

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  A green, lush hillside

In "WCRAM?", how is the penner different from the field-minder?

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  It can read maps

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  It has a Class One brain

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  It is smaller and works in the city

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  It is smaller and does clerical work

Answer explanation

page 224

How does the geography change as the machines in "WCRAM?" travel cross-country?

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  The machines cross shallow rivers

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  The land becomes cracked and erroded

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  The fields become lusher

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  The climate gets warmer