Worksheets"The Tell-Tale Heart" Test Review
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 38mins
What point of view is being used when the narrator is a character and uses the pronouns I, me, or we?
First Person POV
Second Person POV
Third Person POV
What point of view is being used when the narrator is an outside observer?
First Person POV
Second Person POV
Third Person POV
What is the voice that tells the story referred to as?
Point of View
Suspense
Narrator
What is the method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction?
Point of View
Suspense
Unreliable Narrator
Reliable Narrator
What is known as the sense of growing tension, fear, excitement?
Point of View
Suspense
Unreliable Narrator
Reliable Narrator
The police officers cannot hear the old man’s heart because—
The narrator is talking too loudly
They are sitting too far away from the body
Their senese are not as acute at the narrator’s
The heart is not actually beating
To prove he is not mad, the narrator—
Describes how cunning and cautious he is
Waits until the eighth night to kill the old man
Says he pities the old man but laughs in his heart
Hides the old man’s body under the floorboards
What is the narrator’s reason for killing the old man?
The old man has insulted the narrator many times.
The narrator cannot bear to hear the beating of the old man’s heart.
The old man’s eye remind the narrator of a vulture’s.
The narrator hopes to inherit the old man’s treasures.
The use of a first-person narrator in the story —
allows readers to understand each character’s point of view
helps to explain how the characters are related to each other
gives readers insight into the narrator’s mental instability
illustrates how the old man treats the narrator every day
Which word from paragraph 18 is closest to meaning contempt?
Agony
Derision
Swore
Hypocritical
In paragraphs 14–15, the narrator describes his cleanup and first encounter with the police with a tone of--
Anxiety
Melancholy
Confidence
Indifference
Which choice best expresses the main idea of paragraph 8?
The old man stirs and cries out when he hears the narrator at the door and scares the narrator away.
The narrator can relate to the old man’s fear, but that only makes the narrator feel more powerful.
The narrator chooses to wake the old man so that he can face him directly for the murder.
The narrator slips into the room when the old man wakes, hoping that the old man will not see him.
In paragraph 4, the narrator describes visiting the old man every night at midnight. Why is he unable to commit the murder for the first seven nights?
The old man is a restless sleeper, so the narrator cannot sneak in.
The narrator does not have enough light from the lantern to commit the murder.
He is trying to be kind by giving the old man a few more days to live.
He cannot see the old man’s eye, which is what he feels he needs to kill.
In paragraph 2, the word conceived means to —
become pregnant with a child
have an opinion on an issue
form a plan in the mind
imagine something abstract
How does the narrator’s mention of his acute hearing in paragraph 1 foreshadow the old man’s death?
It foreshadows the point when the old man’s heartbeat drives the narrator to kill him.
It foreshadows his ability to hear the police coming when they respond to the old man’s murder.
It foreshadows his decision to murder the old man because he was tired of listening to him.
It foreshadows the moment when the old man hears the narrator at the door and wakes up.
Which two are examples of irony in the story?
The narrator’s attempts to hide the murder actually result in him giving himself up to the police.
The narrator chooses to commit the murder in the middle of the night, when the old man is asleep.
The more the narrator insists that he is not mad, the more readers can detect evidence of his madness.
The narrator admits that he liked, even loved, the old man, and that he only objected to his pale, filmy eye.
The neighbor hears the old man shriek and summons the police out of concern for his safety.
After the meeting, he (a) an idea for how to make the process easier for consumers.
When I get home from school in the afternoon, my brother likes to (a) me by hiding my phone from me.
I could not believe she had the (a) to yell at her own mother like that.
