This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > American Classics > The Tell Tale Heart > The Tell Tale Heart – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 44 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In vain " ..... but he had found all in vain. All in vain." A) (Def.) Sharp. B) (Def.) Disturbed. C) (Def.) Intelligence and good judgment. D) (Def.) Held back. E) (Def.) Without success or results. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) (Def.) Without success or results. 2. What did the narrator take upon himself to do as a shepherd watches over his sheep? A) Watch the stars. B) Watch the clock. C) Watch the fire. D) Watch the master as he slept. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Watch the master as he slept. 3. FANCY A) LACK OF RESPECT. B) THINK OR FEEL A CERTAIN WAY. C) SHARP; TO AN INTENSE DEGREE. D) CRAZY. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) THINK OR FEEL A CERTAIN WAY. 4. I wanted to walk the premises before I bought it. A) Border. B) Road. C) Area in and around buildings. D) Woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Area in and around buildings. 5. Act of moving hands or body to express an idea or feeling A) Contemplation. B) Agitation. C) Tranquility. D) Gesticulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gesticulation. 6. To have nerve; to be bold A) Audacity. B) Vex. C) Unobtrusively. D) Anguish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audacity. 7. Forming opinions A) Sagacity. B) Vexed. C) Waned. D) Trifle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sagacity. 8. Read this sentence from paragraph 14. "I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye-not even his-could have detected anything wrong." (Paragraph 14)What does cunningly mean in this sentence? (V.1.3) A) Evidently. B) Obviously. C) Deceptively. D) Intelligently. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deceptively. 9. I could not begin to ..... how the team planned to win the game. A) Conceive. B) Refrain. C) Profound. D) Stifled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceive. 10. What does the word 'sufficient' mean in the context of the story? A) Highly perceptive. B) Concealment of thoughts. C) Taking risks. D) An amount that is enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An amount that is enough. 11. To disturb or annoy A) Text. B) Chex. C) Vex. D) Nex. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vex. 12. Gesticulations "His violent gesticulations did not disturb the police officers." A) (Def.) An assumption; speculation. B) (Def.) Not mentally ill; of sound mind. C) (Def.) Mentally ill; insane. D) (Def.) Energetic gestures. E) (Def.) Ridicule; taunts; disrespect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (Def.) Energetic gestures. 13. Angrily; violently A) Vehemently. B) Waned. C) Derision. D) Vex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vehemently. 14. Infer the meaning of instant in the following: "In an instant, I dragged him to the floor and pulled the heavy bed over him." A) Jump or spring a long way, to a great height. B) Laugh quietly or inwardly. C) A very short space of time; moment. D) A large, round container with a flat bottom used for washing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A very short space of time; moment. 15. Does the narrator hate the old man? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 16. What is a protagonist? A) Main Character. B) Secondary Character. C) Oldest Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Main Character. 17. Carefulness A) Latch. B) Foresight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foresight. 18. Which of the following words BEST replaces sagacity, in the passage below? "Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers-of my sagacity." A) Supidity. B) Righteousness. C) Determination. D) Cleverness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cleverness. 19. Which word is a synonym for concealment? A) Disguise. B) Obvious. C) Imagine. D) Attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disguise. 20. Very great intense; extreme A) Vehemently. B) Audacity. C) Profound. D) Acute. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Profound. ← 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