This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > American Classics > The Tell Tale Heart > The Tell Tale Heart – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Skillfully deceitful A) Resolved. B) Sagacity. C) Cunningly. D) Disassemble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cunningly. 2. In a secret and sly way A) Cunningly. B) Audacity. C) Stealthily. D) Vexed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stealthily. 3. The bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe A) With fear. B) With happiness. C) With respect and fear. D) With anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With respect and fear. 4. In the next paragraph, his tone changes. Read the excerpt and then chose the adjective that best describes this tone. Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work! A) Terrifying. B) Convincing. C) Exciting. D) Tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convincing. 5. ..... is contrast between expectation and reality. A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Vexed. D) Similarly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 6. What is the MAIN type of conflict in the story?Hint:think about the root of the problem rather than the material parts of it. A) Man vs man. B) Man vs self. C) Man vs nature. D) Man vs society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs self. 7. Suspicion of a crime had been aroused. A) Flatten. B) Upset. C) Provoke. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Provoke. 8. The ..... in the lantern allowed for very little light to escape. A) Crevice. B) Vex. C) Hypocritical. D) Conceive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crevice. 9. What is the definition of 'tattoo'? A) A type of food. B) A type of dance. C) A permanent mark on the skin. D) A type of music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A permanent mark on the skin. 10. What did the narrator do for an hour every night by the fire? A) Blink. B) Sleep. C) Stare into the flames. D) Read a book. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stare into the flames. 11. Smooth in manner; confident, charming & polite A) Profound. B) Suavity. C) Vex. D) Dreadful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suavity. 12. Easy-going or calm is ..... A) Pallid. B) Plutonian. C) Bust. D) Placid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Placid. 13. Deputed A) Command or order someone to do something. B) The quality of being sophisticated and charming. C) The action of hiding something or preventing it from being known. D) Appointed or instructed to perform a task. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appointed or instructed to perform a task. 14. Piece of lumber A) Concealment. B) Scantlings. C) Suavity. D) Vexed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scantlings. 15. To make fun of A) Sagacity. B) Mockery. C) Suavity. D) Trifle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mockery. 16. "It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night." What does the word "conceived" mean in the above sentence? A) Having an idea. B) Having mortal terror. C) Having a gesticulation. D) Going insane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having an idea. 17. Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind A) Hypocritcal. B) Concealment. C) Fancy. D) Audacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fancy. 18. To irritate or annoy A) Stifle. B) Triumph. C) Dissumulation. D) Vex. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vex. 19. I went boldly into his chamber A) I went very cautiously. B) I went very quickly. C) I went without being afarid. D) I went pretending I was doing something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I went without being afarid. 20. The sagacity of the judge's verdict showed his knowledge of both the law and humanity. A) Stupidity. B) Invalidity. C) Sound judgement. D) Ignorance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sound judgement. ← 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 7The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 8The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 9The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books