Tell-Tale Heart

What city was Edger Allan Poe from?

• Cleveland, OH

• Boston, MA

• Hartford, CT

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Poe became famous for his use of

• animals in his story to teach life lessons

• comedy mixed with drama

• unreliable narrators to tell his stories

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What illness/disease did Poe suffer from most of his life?

• anxiety

• tuberculosis

• alcoholism

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What were the years of Poe's life?

• 1909 - 1949

• 1809 - 1849

• 1709 - 1749

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Poe is acknowledged as the inventor of which literary genre?

• drama

• science fiction

• horror

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What did Poe die from?

• a heart attack

• tuberculosis

• no one really knows

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How could Edgar Allan Poe be best described?

• depressed and sad

• positive and upbeat

• angry and resentful

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What does the narrator say that his disease had done to him?

• turned him into a murderer

• sharpened his senses

• made him overly nervous

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Why does the narrator wait a week before killing the old man?

• He said he must see the old man's eye first.

• He likes frightening him.

• He feels guilty about taking a human life.

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You can tell the narrator is unreliable when he . . .

• describes his movements on the night of the murder.

• confesses that he is nervous in the beginning of the story.

• says he is sane, but then describes how cleverly he hid the body.

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