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Tell-Tale Heart Vocab/Reading Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If you __________ someone, you annoy that person.

a)

stifle

b)

hypocrite

c)

conceive

d)

vex

2.

Which word means a narrow crack?

a)

Crevasse

b)

Crevice

c)

Vehement

d)

Stifle

3.

______________________ is jeering laughter or ridicule.

a)

Derision

b)

Hypocrite

c)

Audacity

d)

Suspense

4.

An unreliable narrator is.....

a)

A third person narrator/outside observer

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

A first person narrator who is very trustworthy

d)

A narrator whose assessment of events cannot be trusted for some reason

5.

___________________________ is shameless daring or boldness.

a)

Hypocritical

b)

Audacity

c)

Vex

d)

Suspense

6.

If you ________________ something, you smother it.

a)

vex

b)

stifle

c)

vehement

d)

conceive

7.

Which word means doing something with intense emotion?

a)

Vehemently

b)

Hypocritically

c)

Suspensefully

d)

Vexingly

8.

When you _______________ an idea, you think of it.

a)

vex

b)

stifle

c)

conceive

d)

vehement

9.

If a person is false or deceptive, they are a....

a)

vex

b)

first person narrator

c)

hypocrite

d)

main character

10.

Which word describes the growing tension, fear, and excitement felt by the reader during "The Tell-Tale Heart?"

a)

Suspense

b)

Derision

c)

Vehement

d)

Audacity

11.

True or False: The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is an unreliable narrator because he is mad/insane.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

The narrator claimed that the disease actually made his senses

a)

sharper

b)

duller

13.

Who could hear the old man's heartbeat from beneath the floorboards?

a)

The police

b)

The neighbors

c)

The narrator

d)

Edgar Allan Poe

14.

How does the narrator feel towards the old man?

a)

The narrator has always hated the old man.

b)

The old man has never wronged the narrator, and he actually claims to love the old man.

c)

The narrator doesn't care about the old man.

d)

The narrator thinks the old man is going to kill him.

15.

How does the narrator murder the old man?

a)

He cuts his head off.

b)

He suffocates him with a heavy mattress.

c)

He shoots him.

d)

He buries the old man alive.