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The Tell Tale Heart - Vocabulary

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work!

Dissimulation means...

a)

pretending

b)

cutting up

c)

dismember

d)

logical

2.

What was it that vexed the man...

a)

the soup bowl

b)

the eye

c)

the man's riches

d)

the man's attitudue

3.

An old wise man has a great deal of....

a)

money

b)

plot

c)

sagacity

d)

jewelry

4.

The man refrained from killing the old man because...

a)

he was waiting for the police to come

b)

he was waiting for the eye to be open

c)

he was annoyed

d)

he was a psychopath

5.

What two actions did the man take to conceale the body? Mark 2 answers!

a)

he called the police

b)

he dismembered the corpse

c)

he hid the corpse under the floor boards

d)

he burnt the man

6.

First of all I ____________________the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.

a)

defended

b)

disjointed

c)

dismembered

d)

disappointed

7.

This word means the same as gestures.

a)

gesticulations

b)

symbolization

c)

causations

d)

headache

8.

a willingness to take bold risks

or

rude or disrespectful behavior; impudence

a)

rapacious

b)

audacity

c)

sagacity

d)

tantalize

9.

in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling

a)

illuminate

b)

auditory

c)

facade

d)

vehemently

10.

contemptuous ridicule or mockery - Hint "Don't you disrespect me young man! Don't you derogate or deride! You're in my world now, not your world. And I've got friends on the other side!"

a)

procreate

b)

derision

c)

illuminate

d)

hypocritical

11.

?

a)

vital

b)

rapacious

c)

congenial

d)

hypocritical

12.

What does stifle mean?

a)

to play the clarinet

b)

torment or tease

c)

to make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate.

d)

excite the senses with jazz music

13.

The man in the Tell Tale Heart a very _______________ sense of hearing.

a)

octuse

b)

right

c)

acute

d)

longitudinal