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Worksheets"The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
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Class
Date
1.
What point of view is "The Tell-Tale Heart" told in?
a)
first person
b)
second person
c)
third person limited
d)
third person omniscient
2.
To whom is the narrator telling his story?
a)
The readers
b)
The police
c)
The old man
d)
The narrator isn't telling the story.
3.
What does the narrator want people to think about him?
a)
He wants people to think he is sweet.
b)
He wants people to think he is not crazy
c)
He wants people to think he is insane
d)
He wants people to think he is angry at the old man.
4.
What does the narrator say about his senses?
a)
They are dull.
b)
They are extremely sharp and sensitive.
c)
They are bothersome.
5.
How does the narrator describe the eye?
a)
He says it is beautiful.
b)
He says it is very focused.
c)
He says it is the eye of a vulture.
d)
He says it is all-seeing.
6.
What does the narrator do each night?
a)
He sneaks out of the house.
b)
He watches the old man while he sleeps.
c)
He hides in the attic.
d)
He stares out the window.
7.
How does the narrator act towards the old man during the day?
a)
He is rude to him.
b)
He is abusive to him.
c)
He ignores him.
d)
He is friendly and kind.
8.
What does the narrator resolve to do to the old man?
a)
quit working for him
b)
murder him
c)
leave his house
d)
gouge his eye out
9.
What was the reason that the narrator killed the old man?
a)
His house
b)
Money
c)
His eye
d)
He insulted the narrator
10.
How does the narrator hide the body?
a)
He dismembers the body and buries it in the backyard.
b)
He hides it in the bathtub.
c)
He dismembers the corpse and hides it under the floorboards.
d)
He moves it under the bed.
11.
Why doesn't the narrator fear being caught?
a)
He is actually a police officer himself.
b)
He flees the scene of the crime.
c)
He didn't actually do it.
d)
He is sure he hid the body well.
12.
What was it that made the narrator confess to the crime?
a)
The old man's ghost haunted him
b)
Someone saw him kill the old man
c)
The old man's heartbeat
d)
He heard voices
13.
We can infer that the narrator confessed because
a)
the police already knew.
b)
he saw blood on the floor.
c)
he felt guilty.
d)
the body smelled.
14.
Whose heartbeat does the narrator really hear?
a)
the old man's
b)
his own
c)
the cops'
d)
the neighbors'
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