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WorksheetsThe Tell-Tale Heart
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
TRUE OR FALSE: The old man wore a patch over one of his eyes because he couldn’t see out of it.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE: The narrator had nothing against the old man personally; they got along well. He was just driven to madness by a certain feature of the old man’s face.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE: When the narrator crept into his bedroom, the old man started screaming and the narrator was afraid the neighbors would hear.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE: The narrator accidentally left blood stains near the tub, and that is why the police suspected foul play.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE: The narrator confessed his crime to the police in the end.
TRUE
FALSE
Why did the narrator want the old man dead?
He wanted the house all to himself.
He couldn’t stand the old man’s vulture-like eye.
The old man was wealthy and the narrator wanted his money.
The old man reminded the narrator of his father.
What did the narrator do every night without the old man knowing?
He crept into the old man’s room and watched him as he slept.
He sharpened the knife that he planned to use to murder the old man.
He quietly stole things from the old man’s room.
He hid mutilated bodies under the floorboards.
How did the narrator dispose of the body?
He hid it under the bed in the old man’s room.
He put it in the bathtub and covered it up.
He fed the body to the old man’s pet vulture
He cut it into pieces and hid it under the floorboards.
Where did the narrator have the police officers sit while he was talking to them?
On the porch outside the house.
In the kitchen.
In the old man’s bedroom right above where the body was hidden.
In the bathroom right next to the tub that held the dismembered corpse.
What is the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” that the narrator hears at the end of the story?
The sound of the old man breathing.
The beating of the old man’s heart.
A watch that is hidden in a drawer.
None of the above.
The narrator had a/an (a) sense of hearing.
The narrator had the (a) to bring the police officers into the room where the dead body was placed under the floorboards.
The reason the narrator killed the old man is because he was so (a) by his eye.
When the murderer became nervous, he used rapid hand movements or (a) .
The narrator felt the eye watched him with (a) , or ridicule.
The narrator used (a) , or good judgment, in waiting until just the right moment to strike the old man.
When waiting in the dark room, the narrator (a) from using his lantern until just the right moment.
The murderer should have been more (a) around the police officers.
He pulled the heavy bed on top of the old man (a) in order to kill him.
When he treated the old man kindly and showed smoothness around him, the narrator was acting with (a) .
