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The Tell-Tale Heart 🫀

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do we call the speaker of the story?

a)

suspense

b)

narrator

c)

point of view

d)

unreliable narrator

2.

Which type of narrator is a character in the story and uses words like I, me, my?

a)

suspense

b)

third-person

c)

first-person

d)

unreliable narrator

3.

What do we call a narrator whose story cannot be trusted?

a)

suspense

b)

third-person

c)

first-person

d)

unreliable narrator

4.

When you ________________ an idea, you think of it.

a)

conceive

b)

vex

c)

stifle

d)

vehemently

5.

Why were the police called to the house?

a)

Neighbors reported a scream

b)

Neighbors heard glass shattering

c)

Neighbors saw a mysterious figure lurking around

d)

The old man's dog was acting funny

6.

By telling the story from the murderer's point of view, the author helps the reader...

a)

Recognize the narrators insanity

b)

Understand the old man's thoughts

c)

Compare both of the characters thoughts

d)

Understand why the police have come

7.

How does the fragile old-man dies?

a)

He get shot with a pistol.

b)

Due to old age.

c)

The madman chopped his limbs off.

d)

Suffocated with the bed sheets.

8.

What did the narrator claim the old-man's eyes looked like?

a)

A snake's eyes

b)

A cat's eye

c)

A vulture's eye

d)

A murderer's eye

9.

Where was the corpse concealed (hidden)?

a)

In the fridge

b)

Under the floor boards

c)

Under the narrator's bed

d)

No where

10.

How many nights did the narrator watch the old man sleep?

a)

4 nights

b)

6 nights

c)

8 nights

d)

10 nights

11.

Where did the narrator dismember the body?

a)

In the room

b)

The tub

12.

True or False: The narrator killed the old man because of his eye.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

True or False: The narrator hated the old man and was mean to him.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Why did the narrator wait until the 8th night to kill the old man?

a)

The narrator was scared to kill him.

b)

The old man was suspicious of him.

c)

The narrator said he must see the old man's eye to kill him.

d)

The police kept coming to the house.

15.

What is the conflict of the story?

a)

The narrator is haunted by the old man's eye and wants to kill the old man to get rid of the vulture eye.

b)

The old man is rich and doesn't pay the narrator.

c)

The narrator is being held hostage.

d)

The old man treats the narrator poorly.

16.

Who is the author of this short story?

a)

Edgar Allen Poe

b)

Miss Hernandez

c)

James Lawson

d)

Isidro De La Cruz

17.

How did the police finally find out what the narrator did?

a)

The saw the blood stains.

b)

The police found the tub with all of the blood.

c)

They found a diary with the old man's suspicions.

d)

The narrator admits to the murder and shows them where to find the body.

18.

Where did the narrator and police stay to chat?

a)

Living room

b)

Old man's study room

c)

Outside on the porch

d)

The old man's bedroom where he was killed

19.

Why do the officers stay after they search the house and find nothing suspicious?

a)

to have breakfast with the narrator.

b)

to search the room more carefully.

c)

to wait for his lawyer.

d)

to continue to talk with the narrator.

20.
What had madness done to the narrator's senses?
a)
Sharpened them
b)
Destroyed them
c)
Dulled them
d)
Nothing