Tell a tale heart

A willingness to take bold risks

• dissimulation

• derision

• audacity

• mournful

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

to form or create a plan in the mind

• dissimulation

• profound

• audacity

• conceived

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.4

the quality of being wise and insightful

• profound

• conceived

• dreadful

• sagacity

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the setting of the story, The Tell-Tale Heart?

• During the day, modern times

• Mostly at night, country house

• Mostly at night, modern times

• England, country house

The old man's eye vexes the narrator and torments him until he goes insane. What does the word vexes mean as used in the sentence above?

• brings trouble or bothers

• happiness

• hinders or gets in the way

• antagonizes

What is the conflict of the story?

• Old man vs narrator

• Narrator's obsession with the eye

• Narrator vs the country house

• Old man's decisions about what to do with his wealth

Who is the author of the story, The Tell-Tale Heart?

• Frank R. Stockton

• Toni Cade Bambara

• J.K. Rowling

• Edgar Allen Poe

Which word below best describes the way in which the narrator watches and observes the old man before he kills him?

• concieved

• acute

• stealithy

• derision

What has the madness done for the narrator's senses?

• Nothing of note

• Dulled them

• Sharpened them

• Destroyed them

Answer explanation

"The disease has sharpened my senses--not destroyed-- not dulled them."

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What was the reason the narrator killed the old man?

• He wants the old man's money

• He hates the old man's clouded blue eye

• He is tired of the old man's complaints

• He wants the house to himself

Answer explanation

"I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had they eye of a vulture--a pale blue eye, with a film over it."

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3