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The Tell-Tale Heart Vocab Test 1st 2nd Blocks

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Audacity
a)
a building and the area of land that surrounds it
b)
shameless daring or boldness
2.
Refrain
a)
to stop oneself from doing something
b)
highly developed
3.

Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems.

a)

Vex

b)

Wary

c)

Acute

4.
sharp or severe in effect; sudden
a)
acute
b)
sagacity
c)
vexed
d)
stifled
5.
irritated; annoyed
a)
sagacity
b)
stifled
c)
vexed
d)
foresight
6.
Who wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
a)
Mark Twain
b)
JK Rowling
c)
Edgar Allan Poe
d)
Virginia Woolf
7.

sagacity

a)

a type of plant

b)

to get old and wrinkly

c)

sound or wise judgment

d)

Can you repeat the question?

8.

audacity

a)

shameless daring or boldness

b)

a city that plays music in the streets

c)

cringe

d)

Is this quiz almost over?

9.

suavity

a)

graceful politeness

b)

awkward rudeness

c)

a type of shampoo

d)

zzzzzzzzz

10.

vehemently

a)

acting as though one doesn't care

b)

done with intense emotion

c)

a type of futuristic car

d)

Wake me up when this is over.

11.

derision

a)

coming from something else

b)

giving praise for a heroic deed

c)

jeering laughter or ridicule

d)

I don't know

12.

gesticulations

a)

keeping very still

b)

energetic gestures of the hands or arm

c)

smiling in a creepy way

d)

one more...

13.

Someone who has wisdom

a)

acute

b)

vexed

c)

refrain

d)

sagacity

14.

_________ means rude or disrespectful behavior

a)

derision

b)

audacity

15.

Vehemently means _______

a)

putting on false appearances

b)

passionate and intense manner

16.

The word _____________ means dramatic gestures to emphasize speech.

a)

gesticulations

b)

scarcely

17.

The word derision means _____________.

a)

the state of being ridiculed or mocked

b)

in a clever and deceitful way

18.
Wary
a)
the quality of being charming and gracious in manner
b)
boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions
c)
feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems.
19.

He hated the smiling __________ of the police.

a)

suavity

b)

audacity

c)

derision

d)

sagacity

20.

He was too _______ to make a careless mistake.

a)

refrained

b)

wary

c)

vexed

d)

acute

21.

His nervousness increased his ________ sense of hearing.

a)

acute

b)

wary

c)

derision

d)

audacity

22.

The police showed perfect ________________.

a)

audacity

b)

suavity

c)

sagacity

d)

vehemently

23.

He was ______ by the old man's eye.

a)

wary

b)

refrained

c)

vehemently

d)

vexed

24.

He was proud of his powers and of his _____________.

a)

audacity

b)

suavity

c)

sagacity

d)

derision

25.

Though furious, he ______ from action.

a)

vexed

b)

acuted

c)

refrained

d)

waried

26.

He was impressed with his own _____________.

a)

audacity

b)

vexed

c)

suavity

d)

sagacity

27.

He talked more ______, but he couldn't drown out the sound.

a)

derision

b)

vehemently

c)

gesticulations

d)

vexed

28.

His violent ____________________ did not disturb the police officers.

a)

suavity

b)

sagacity

c)

gesticulations

d)

derision

29.

A _____ is a person who tells a story.

a)

narrator

b)

preview

c)

synonym

30.

_________ is contrast between expectation and reality.

a)

personification

b)

irony

c)

vexed

d)

similie