The Tell-Tale Heart Quiz

Directions: Take out a clean lined sheet of paper and write your name, date, and period at the top corner. Copy the title of this Quiz at the top of your paper. Number your paper 1-10 skipping three lines between each number. You then must not only state whether the answer is A, B, or C but you must pick 5 of the questions to provide the sentence from the story the answer can be found in.

  1. How was the man feeling at the opening of the story?
  2. Angry
  3. Nervous
  4. Hungry
  5. Why did the man kill the old man?
  6. For his gold
  7. Because of his pale blue eye
  8. Because the old man wronged him
  9. What did the man try to convince the reader he was NOT?
  10. Mad
  11. Stupid
  12. Evil
  13. Why did it take the narrator eight days to finally kill the old man?
  14. He kept having second thoughts
  15. He was having trouble with the lantern
  16. He found the old man’s eye always closed
  17. How did the man describe the groan he heard?
  18. One of pain
  19. One of grief
  20. One of mortal terror
  21. How did the man feel when he opened the lantern and saw the old man’s open eye?
  22. Furious
  23. Afraid
  24. Calm
  25. How did the man kill the old man?
  26. By smothering him with a pillow
  27. By choking him with his hands
  28. By pulling the heavy bed over him
  29. Where did the man put the old man’s body parts after he killed him?
  30. Under the planks in the floor
  31. In the old man’s garden
  32. In the old man’s closet
  33. When there was a knock at the door after the old man’s death, the man opened the door with a light heart. Why?
  34. He had thought up an alibi or cover story for what had happened
  35. He had a weapon on him
  36. He thought everything was cleaned up with no evidence of blood
  37. How did the police find out the man had killed the old man?
  38. A neighbor said he saw the man kill the old man
  39. The police found the body on their own as they searched the house
  40. The man shrieked, “I admit the deed!”