Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 14 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Definition of sagacity:
2. What is the definition for 'Gesticulations'?
3. I might not interfere with the old man's sleep.
4. Someone who shows up uninvited might have this
5. What is the setting of 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
6. He was proud of his powers and of his .....
7. What tone is represented in the line "You should have seen how wisely I proceeded ..... with what caution-with what foresight ..... with what dissimulation I went to work" ?
8. Describing a person who claims to have certain beliefs about what is right but who behaves in a way that disagrees with those beliefs
9. The first part of the plot containing background information
10. Vexed means .....
11. Even though Ms. Lawrence went over it five times in class, finding the slope is a concept that still ..... me.
12. Having or showing a very perceptive understanding
13. What causes conflict between the narrator and the old man?
14. To be sneaky or dishonest
15. What is the meaning of the word 'unperceived'?
16. How does Edgar Allan Poe create suspense in "The Tell-Tale Heart?"
17. Ugly or disgusting
18. What part of speech is the word acute?
19. Which vocabulary word means to pretend or hide one's true feelings?
20. I can't believe that you have the ..... to say she is a liar!
21. Smooth manner; smoothness
22. At what time did the narrator spy on the old man while sleeping?
23. What is to listen?
24. Someone with great foresight probably plans ahead.
25. What part of speech is "terror" ?
26. The act of being hidden
27. The defeated army had to retreat ..... from the field of battle.
28. How would you define the term 'dissemble'?
29. Reread paragraphs 12-13 to determine where the narrator hid the old man's body.
30. To listen attentively
31. What genre of fiction did Poe create?
32. How is the narrator feeling when the police FIRST enter his home?
33. Select the phrase that BEST completes the statement based on the information presented in paragraphs 8 & 9. While standing in the doorway of the old man's room, the narrator keeps the light from the lantern .....
34. I am so thirsty, that my throat is as dry as a bone.
35. No respect for someone or something
36. Believable reason why a suspect could not have been at the scene of a crime.
37. If you ..... something, you smother it.
38. The students did not ..... to their teacher.
39. Find the definition for:refrained
40. What is the act of being charming, confident, and elegant?
41. In order for a work of fiction to be considered horror, it must have some type of monster.
42. Where did the narrator and police stay to chat?
43. Suggesting that someone has done something wrong
44. With intense emotion
45. What is the method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction?
46. Proceeding in small stages
47. Define the word acute
48. What does the word 'conceived' mean in the context of the story?
49. Resist doing something
50. What is the definition of an "internal" conflict?
51. The quality of being wise and insightful
52. Who came knocking at the door while the narrator was hiding the body?
53. How does the narrator feel when he opens the lantern and sees the old man's open eye?
54. Enough to achieve a goal or fill a need
55. What is the action of hiding something or preventing it from being known?
56. The child kept vexing his mother because he asked the same questions over and over. What does the word "vexing" mean in the above sentence?
57. What is in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling?
58. With energy or passionately
59. Audacity means .....
60. I didn't like creeping down the dark alley. from which point of view is this sentence written?
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books