The Tell-Tale Heart Quiz
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | Nervous. "You should have seen me. You should have seen how...with what dissimulation" (Poe 3)
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| What sense was acute in the beginning of the story? | show 🗑
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| Why did the narrator kill the old man? | show 🗑
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| How did the narrator kill the old man? | show 🗑
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| show | Under the planks in the floor. "while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim" (Poe 14)
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| When there was a knock at the door after the old man's death, the narratoropened the door with a light heart. Why? | show 🗑
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| show | The narrator shrieked "I admit the deed!" (Poe 18)
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| show | It was the narrator's heart. He thought he was hearing the old man's heart but it was actually his. He was getting more anxious per minute.
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| In what way has the old man previously wronged the narrator? | show 🗑
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| The narrator claims that his attitude toward the old man has always been | show 🗑
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| show | Sharpened them.
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| show | An hour. "It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed." (Poe 3)
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| show | Once. "He shrieked once-once only" (Poe 11)
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| What was it that made the narrator confess that it was him? | show 🗑
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| show | sharp; quick
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| Why was the narrator confident in himself after he killed the old man and put the old man under the plank? | show 🗑
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| vehemently | show 🗑
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