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Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart
Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart
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"The Tell-Tell Heart" Reading Comprehension Check
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1
Why does the narrator wait a week before killing the old man?
waits for the darkest night of the week
likes frightening the old man repeatedly
feels guilty about taking a human life
He must see the old man's eye first
2
How does the narrator say he feels about the old man in the story?
He is glad they are neighbors
He is a bad neighbor
He is creeped out by him.
He loves him
3
Why is the narrator upset with the police near the end of the story?
He thinks the police are trying to kill him
He thinks they are making fun of him
The police accuse him of murder
The police find the old man's body
4
Poe is considered to be" the father of.........."
horror
the detective story
comedy
science fiction
5
The beating heart symbolizes
the narrator's sanity
the old man's heart
the narrator's guilt
the narrator's insanity
6
What is the narrator's tone throughout The Tell-Tale Heart?
jovial
frightened
<p>paranoid</p>
depressed
7
Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?
It is an accident
He is too noisy at night
The narrator is a serial killer
His creepy eye bothers him
8
Which of the following characteristics frequently marks Poe's writing style?
Grotesque imagery
third person point of view
sarcasm
short sentences
9
During his lifetime, which was Poe's greatest literary success?
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
The Black Cat
The Pit and the Pendulum
10
We know the narrator is unreliable when he
says he is sane, but describes how cleverly he hid the body
explains that he did not kill the man for his money
confesses that he is nervous in the beginning
describes his movements on the night of the murder
11
How old was Poe when he died?
55
29
40
36
12
Who arrives at the narrator's door at night?
The narrator's mother
The police
The old man's wife
The old man's dog
13
What other jobs did Poe have before he became well-known for writing?
newspaper editor
literary critic
none- he was always a professional writer
waiter
14
"It was his hideous heart!"
alliteration
personification
hyperbole
simile
15
"...a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider..." is an example of
a metaphor
personification
irony
a simile
16
Poe married Virginia Clemm. She was also his...
his nurse
best friend's sister
his cousin
his secretary
17
The vulture eye symbolizes
the narrator's sanity
the old man's eye
the narrator's insanity
the narrator's sagacity
18
Suspense is created by
saying that the narrator loves the old man
explaining why the narrator hid the body after the murder
describing what the narrator did before the murder
revealing ways in which the narrator is kind to the old man
19
In this sentence, "I had been too wary for that,"
wary
means...
Loopy
Vexed
Cautious
Sleepy
20
Why is it
ironic
that the old man fears robbers?
He has been robbed before
He needs to be worried about the people inside, not out
He has never been robbed
He is a robber
21
"...a pale blue eye with a film over it." This is an example of Poe's usage of.....
foreshadowing
imagery
dialogue
irony
22
In what city di Edgar Allan Poe die?
Atlanta
London
Baltimore
New York
23
In the story, "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe, the word "vexed" means...
Joyful
Bothered
Frantic
Inconsolable
24
What was Edgar Allan Poe's first published book?
Tamerlane and Other Poems
Poe's Greatest Hits
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
The Cask of Amontillado
25
What is the overall mood?
sinister
casual
excited
hilarious
26
The story shows situational irony when the
narrator hides the old man’s body
narrator cuts the old man’s body apart
narrator reveals that he committed murder
old man is revealed to be alive
27
"...Death, in approaching him, had stalked him with is black shadow..." is an example of
a metaphor
a simile
personification
irony
28
Dashes are used to show a pause or a break in thought. Poe uses them in his story to show
that the narrator is actually sane
that the narrator is confident
that the old man is scared
that the narrator is irrational
29
"He had the eye of a vulture--a pale blue eye with a film over it" is an example of
dialect
imagery
irony
a simile
30
Which person in Poe's life died when he was very young?
his mother
all of the above
his father
his brother