This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > The Tell Tale Heart > The Tell Tale Heart – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Infer the meaning of ring in the following: "My head ached and my ears seemed to ring." Clue:it is a kind of sound one's ears make when one is under stress. A) Having less colour than usual, typically as a result of shock,. B) Very loud and clear, like the sound a bell or alarm makes. C) In a regular and evenmanner. D) A great and painful feeling of fear or shock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Very loud and clear, like the sound a bell or alarm makes. 2. What is a piece of lumber of small cross section? A) Acutely. B) Concealment. C) Suavity. D) Scantlings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scantlings. 3. Grossly offensive; causing horror A) Disassemble. B) Refrain. C) Hideous. D) Profound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hideous. 4. Hearken! The King has spoken! A) Ignore this information. B) Listen. C) Come hear. D) Announcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Listen. 5. Noticeably different; clearly set apart from others of its kind A) Distinct. B) Hideous. C) Scarcely. D) Audacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distinct. 6. What did the narrator hear while opening the door? A) The old man's groan. B) The death watches in the wall. C) The sound of footsteps. D) The creaking hinges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The creaking hinges. 7. The quality of being charming or polished A) Vehemently. B) Suavity. C) Sufficient. D) Profound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suavity. 8. To suppress; to end A) Stifled. B) Waned. C) Foresight. D) Bade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stifled. 9. What is the definition of 'Hearken'? A) To ignore. B) To listen. C) To speak loudly. D) To sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To listen. 10. Which word means 'to pretend or disguise one's true feelings'? A) Reveal. B) Disassemble. C) Conceal. D) Expose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disassemble. 11. Poe is credited with inventing which type of fiction A) Mathematical. B) Science fiction. C) Comedy. D) Detective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Detective. 12. How They (a character) feels Toward someone/something at that time (not always) A) Voice. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 13. Describing a quantity; just enough A) Sufficient. B) Acute. C) Profound. D) Audacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sufficient. 14. What is the definition of vex? A) To make someone feel a lot of love, especially with trivial matters. B) To make someone feel sad and lonely, especially with trivial matters. C) To make someone feel joy, especially with trivial matters. D) To make someone feel annoyed or frustrated, especially with trivial matters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To make someone feel annoyed or frustrated, especially with trivial matters. 15. Importance or with great respect is ..... A) Placid. B) Surcease. C) Curious. D) Stately. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stately. 16. Laughing at or making fun of A) Fidgets. B) Revolting. C) Ghastly. D) Confess. E) Mocking. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Mocking. 17. How many officers came to confront the Main Character. A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 18. " ..... so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye." What does the word "vexed" mean in the above sentence? A) Held back. B) Annoyed, or bothered. C) Cautious. D) Sharp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Annoyed, or bothered. 19. A common theme is this story is ..... A) Paranoia. B) Guilt. C) Anxiety. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. "There was nothing to wash out-no stain of any kind-no blood spot whatever. I had been too wary for that." What does the word "wary" mean in the above sentence? A) Annoyed, or bothered. B) Smooth manner; smoothness. C) Cautious. D) Held back. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cautious. 21. Smooth in manner; agreeable or polite; sophisticated A) Suavity. B) Villainously. C) Virtuous. D) Precisely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suavity. 22. The bachelor dissembled his real motives of taking all of the girl's money once they got married. A) Reveal. B) Share. C) Provide, tell. D) Pretend, deceive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pretend, deceive. 23. Who's heart is actually beating? A) The deadman's heart. B) One of the police officer's. C) The narrator's heart. D) It is really a clock ticking and not a heart at all . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The narrator's heart. 24. Marked by intense force or emotion A) Audacity. B) Scarcely. C) Acute. D) Vehemently. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vehemently. 25. What does conceive mean? A) To steal. B) To think of. C) To create. D) To remember. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To think of. 26. The house where the narrator was inside, it was visited by three men. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. It always ..... me when someone leaves the lights on at home. A) Loves. B) Keens. C) Skulk. D) Vexes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vexes. 28. His friends said that Vans were "played out, " but he knew hey were-being ..... A) Hypocritical. B) Crevice. C) Vehemently. D) Stifle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypocritical. 29. Who was the suspect? A) The police officers. B) The man. C) The old woman. D) The old man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The man. 30. Cautious means ..... A) Extremely careful. B) Hiding from someone. C) Afraid at all times. D) Extreme fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extremely careful. 31. A general message or lesson about life A) Voice. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 32. Intelligence and Good Judgement A) Audacity. B) Sagacity. C) Resolved. D) Cunningly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sagacity. 33. What word can be used correctly in this sentence? When I saw the dog, I was ..... with terror. A) Happy. B) Seized. C) Sad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seized. 34. The old man's terror must have been extreme! A) Sad. B) Not frightened. C) Very great. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very great. 35. Which vocabulary word means to move in a wavy pattern? A) Undulate. B) Sagacity. C) Loquacious. D) Concealment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Undulate. 36. They talked of common things. A) Ordinary. B) Weird. C) Strange. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ordinary. 37. What part of speech is "hideous" ? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 38. What do we call the speaker of the story? A) Unreliable narrator. B) Narrator. C) Point of view. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 39. Sharp or severe in effect A) Cunningly. B) Profound. C) Dreadful. D) Acuteness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acuteness. 40. What is the definition of 'Sagacity'? A) The idea of having or using wisdom. B) The ability to see in the dark. C) The act of speaking or writing in a persuasive manner. D) The quality of being charming or polished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The idea of having or using wisdom. 41. Spoke in a wild or angry way A) Wary. B) Raved. C) Vehemently. D) Gesticulations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raved. 42. What literary element is this? "It increased my fury as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage." A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Theme. D) Imagery . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 43. Alliteration is ..... A) A comparison between two unlike things. B) The repetition of certain sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of certain sounds. 44. What narrative point of view is used in 'The Tell-Tale Heart'? A) Omniscient. B) Second-person. C) Third-person. D) First-person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First-person. 45. What is indirect characterization? A) When the narrator makes direct statements about a character's personality. B) When a writer shows what a character is like through actions and interactions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When a writer shows what a character is like through actions and interactions. 46. Define 'hearken': A) To observe. B) Listen. C) A type of bird. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Listen. 47. As the sun went down, the day slowly ..... A) Distracted. B) Vexed. C) Waned. D) Deputed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waned. 48. Hearkening means to ignore and treat without care. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 49. Which word best describes the mood at the beginning of 'The Tell-Tale Heart'? A) Calm. B) Excited. C) Happy. D) Tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tense. 50. Extremely: ..... ::pounding:hammering A) Profound. B) Sagacity. C) Acute. D) Audacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Profound. 51. The extract is written in ..... A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 52. Energetic Gestures A) Cunningly. B) Scantling. C) Gesticulations. D) Derision. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gesticulations. 53. Something that you do in advance to prevent something dangerous or unpleasant from happening in the future A) Shrieked. B) Waned. C) Cleverly. D) Precaution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Precaution. 54. The room became bright and cheerful once I undid the shutters. The word undid means ..... A) Tied. B) Untied. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Untied. 55. Who wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart" ? A) Charles Dickens. B) Mary Shelley. C) Bram Stoker. D) Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edgar Allan Poe. 56. What is the definition of dissemble? A) To conceal or hide one's feelings, beliefs, or motives. B) To break something apart into pieces. C) To line up. D) To reveal one's feelings, beliefs, or motives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To conceal or hide one's feelings, beliefs, or motives. 57. Angrily; violently/ burla o burla despectiva A) Waned. B) Vehemently. C) Derision. D) Vex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vehemently. 58. What does the word WANED mean? A) To let go or release. B) To be done passionately. C) To listen closely. D) Decreasing in size or amount. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decreasing in size or amount. 59. He had never given me insult A) Hurt. B) Punch. C) Make fun of. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Make fun of. 60. A deliberate and vigorous motion of the hands or body A) Propensity. B) Cohesive. C) Oppose. D) Gesticulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gesticulation. 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