This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > American Classics > The Tell Tale Heart > The Tell Tale Heart – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 39 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sound judgment; intelligence A) Scantlings. B) Suavity. C) Concealment. D) Sagacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sagacity. 2. What does the word hearkening mean as it is used in this line from paragraph 7? (V.1.3) "He was still sitting up in the bed listening, -just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall." (Paragraph 7) A) Sleep. B) Ignore. C) Listen. D) Awaken. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Listen. 3. Urged or compelled A) Hypocritical. B) Bade. C) Concealment. D) Envelope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bade. 4. Undistinguished A) Not able to think clearly or to understand what is obvious or simple. B) Relatively unknown. C) Lacking distinction; unexceptional. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lacking distinction; unexceptional. 5. What is the purpose of the narrator's obsession with the old man's eye? A) To symbolize evil and the narrator's fear. B) To represent the narrator's love for the old man. C) To highlight the old man's intelligence. D) To demonstrate the narrator's curiosity about the human body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To symbolize evil and the narrator's fear. 6. Definition:to listen A) Repose. B) Hearken. C) Vex. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hearken. 7. What you do to your dog to get him to obey A) Suavity. B) Bade. C) Awe. D) Wane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bade. 8. What is the purpose of the em dash in the following line from The Tell-Tale Heart? "You should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work!" A) To add a joke. B) To interrupt his thought process and create parallel thoughts. C) To convince the reader that the narrator is not mad. D) To convince the reader that the narrator is mad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To interrupt his thought process and create parallel thoughts. 9. A new fear seized me. A) To grab ahold. B) To shock. C) To answer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To grab ahold. 10. What is the setting of the story? A) The old man's bedroom in his house in the country. B) The old man's basement at midnight. C) The old man's attic at midnight. D) The old man's house, in his bedroom at midnight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The old man's house, in his bedroom at midnight. 11. Hateful, repulsive A) Derision. B) Acute. C) Loathsome. D) Gesticulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loathsome. 12. Done in a sly or deceiving manner A) Dreadfully. B) Cunningly. C) Mockery. D) Hypocritical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cunningly. 13. Sharp or severe in effect; sudden A) Acute. B) Sagacity. C) Vexed. D) Stifled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acute. 14. What type of figurative language is being used below? Select the BEST answer. "Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim." A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. I stood with my mouth ..... as I watched the volcano erupt. A) Vexed. B) Agape. C) Keen. D) Blathered. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agape. 16. Not having or showing complete trust in someone or something that could be dangerous or cause trouble; cautious A) Wary. B) Shrieked. C) Waned. D) Cleverly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wary. 17. In a forceful manner A) Vehemently. B) Heinous. C) Analogy. D) Cohesive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vehemently. 18. Define the word hastily A) In a hurry and without carefulness. B) Take a bold risk. C) Without success. D) In a smooth graceful manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a hurry and without carefulness. 19. What does the word 'dissimulation' mean in the context of the story? A) Highly perceptive. B) Concealment of thoughts. C) Taking risks. D) Highly insightful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concealment of thoughts. 20. A tag on the back of your shirt will do this A) Waned. B) Vex. C) Suavity. D) Bade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vex. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAmerican Classics QuizzesThe Tell Tale Heart Quiz 1The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 2The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 3The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 4The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 5The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 6The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 7The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 8The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books