The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. What word can be used correctly in this sentence? When I saw the dog, I was ..... with terror.

Correct Answer: B) Seized.

2. The old man's terror must have been extreme!

Correct Answer: C) Very great.

3. Which vocabulary word means to move in a wavy pattern?

Correct Answer: A) Undulate.

4. They talked of common things.

Correct Answer: A) Ordinary.

5. What part of speech is "hideous" ?

Correct Answer: C) Adjective.

6. Push

Correct Answer: A) Thrust.

7. What do we call the speaker of the story?

Correct Answer: B) Narrator.

8. Sharp or severe in effect

Correct Answer: C) Acuteness.

9. To listen

Correct Answer: A) Hearken.

10. What is the definition of 'Sagacity'?

Correct Answer: C) The idea of having or using wisdom.

11. BADE

Correct Answer: A) A GREETING.

12. Spoke in a wild or angry way

Correct Answer: C) Raved.

13. What literary element is this? "It increased my fury as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage."

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

14. Alliteration is .....

Correct Answer: A) The repetition of certain sounds.

15. What narrative point of view is used in 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?

Correct Answer: A) First-person.

16. What is indirect characterization?

Correct Answer: B) When a writer shows what a character is like through actions and interactions.

17. Define 'hearken':

Correct Answer: B) Listen.

18. As the sun went down, the day slowly .....

Correct Answer: A) Waned.

19. Obsessed

Correct Answer: A) Haunted.

20. Hearkening means to ignore and treat without care.

Correct Answer: B) False.