This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > The Tell Tale Heart > The Tell Tale Heart – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Tell Tale Heart Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Definition:extremely sensitive A) Foresight. B) Acute. C) Ceased. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acute. 2. What is the term for a piece of lumber with a small cross section? A) Bade. B) Scantlings. C) Concealment. D) Suavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scantlings. 3. What about the old man scares and angers the narrator? A) His pet cat. B) His old house. C) His children. D) His clouded eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His clouded eye. 4. Which vocabulary word means to be wise or have good judgement? A) Sententious. B) Audacity. C) Vehemently. D) Sagacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sagacity. 5. Warning or threatening is ..... A) Ominous. B) Fancy. C) Entreating. D) Mien. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ominous. 6. 'Irony' is a literary term used to describe when what the characters and readers expect to happen differs from what actually happens. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. The man ..... made a plan to rob the local story by paying off the manager to keep the door unlocked. A) Stealthily. B) Resolved. C) Audacity. D) Cunningly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cunningly. 8. Pretend; hiding one's true feeling A) Cunningly. B) Resolved. C) Sagacity. D) Disassemble. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disassemble. 9. What are gesticulations? A) Hand movements. B) Chewing. C) Dancing. D) Running. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hand movements. 10. Hybrid students in a classroom can be called this A) Distinctness. B) Hearkening. C) Scantlings. D) Audacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scantlings. 11. Definition:having good manners A) Hearken. B) Suavity. C) Waned. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suavity. 12. What kind of job or occupation did Edgar Allen Poe have? A) Teacher. B) Fireman. C) Author. D) Artist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author. 13. N. Having the quality of being unmistakable, clearly defined A) Distinctness. B) Audacity. C) Sagacity. D) Bade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distinctness. 14. How did the narrator hide the dismembered body parts? A) In a secret compartment. B) Beneath the floorboards. C) In the attic. D) In a hidden closet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beneath the floorboards. 15. I gazed upon him A) I did not look at him. B) I contemplated him. C) I jumped on him. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I contemplated him. 16. Definition:skillfully A) Pulsation. B) Crevice. C) Cunningly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cunningly. 17. What is the conflict of the story? A) The narrator is haunted by the old man's eye and wants to kill the old man to get rid of the vulture eye. B) The old man is rich and doesn't pay the narrator. C) The narrator is being held hostage. D) The old man treats the narrator poorly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The narrator is haunted by the old man's eye and wants to kill the old man to get rid of the vulture eye. 18. When the narrator tells "you" or "your" story A) Third-Person Omniscient. B) Second-Person. C) Third-Person Limited. D) First-Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second-Person. 19. Having or showing great knowledge or insight A) Conceived. B) Sagacity. C) Cunningly. D) Profound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Profound. 20. Which is the synonym of acute? A) Dense. B) Sharp. C) Smothered. D) Blunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sharp. 21. Which fiction term means the structure or sequence of events/details of a story? A) Plot. B) Setting. C) Characters. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 22. Which fiction term means the overall atmosphere (feeling) of a story? It may be established directly or indirectly and be influenced by the setting. A) Setting. B) Mood. C) Traits. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 23. Match the definition:To have a great victory. A) Triumph. B) Mortal. C) Stifled. D) Pitied. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Triumph. 24. "The actor's suavity helped him land many movie roles."What does suavity mean? A) Pride. B) Sarcasm. C) Silence. D) Charm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charm. 25. Concealment of someone's feelings or thoughts A) Acuteness. B) Derision. C) Audacity. D) Concealment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concealment. 26. It drives me crazy when my phone falls down into the ..... between the seat and the middle console. My hand isn't skinny enough to wedge itself down in the small space! A) Wary. B) Crevice. C) Profound. D) Foresight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crevice. 27. What does the beating heart symbolize in the story? A) Hope and redemption. B) Fear and regret. C) Love and forgiveness. D) Life and guilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Life and guilt. 28. Why do you infer the narrator greets the old man so heartily every morning? A) Because the narrator doesn't want the old man to be suspicious. B) Because the narrator truly cares about him. C) Because the narrator is a very cheerful person. D) Because it is a habit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because the narrator doesn't want the old man to be suspicious. 29. The story's main character or hero A) Antagonist. B) Narrator. C) Third person. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protagonist. 30. "It is good to be wary of strangers."What does wary mean? A) Angry. B) Give them a gift. C) Careful. D) Kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Careful. 31. To disguise, to pretend A) Skulk. B) Agape. C) Refrained. D) Disassemble. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disassemble. 32. What sound did the narrator hear while the officers were in the room? A) A whispering voice. B) A loud scream. C) A ringing in the ears. D) A knocking at the door. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A ringing in the ears. 33. What is the best definition of scantlings? A) Very little of something. B) Small wooden beams supporting the floor. C) Trash or litter left behind. D) Energetic gestures. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Small wooden beams supporting the floor. 34. Smiles and suavity will only get you so far on a romantic date. What does the word "suavity" mean in the above sentence? A) Being smart and using good judgment will always get you a date. B) Using lots of hand gestures will get you a date. C) Being careful and cautious will only get you so far while on a date. D) Being charming will only get you so far while on a date. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Being charming will only get you so far while on a date. 35. When smoke arises from most chimneys, you know that winter has come. Arises means ..... A) Comes up; moves upward. B) Wakes up. C) Falling down. D) Going side to side. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comes up; moves upward. 36. True or False, the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is The Old Man. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 37. What is the definition of 'iridescent'? A) Rude. B) Shiny. C) Dull. D) Quiet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shiny. 38. What does the narrator say the reader mistakes for madness? A) His planning. B) Going into the room. C) Overacuteness of the senses. D) Opening the lantern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overacuteness of the senses. 39. Do you mark me well? A) Do you hear me?. B) Do you give me a good grade?. C) Do you see my point of view?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do you hear me?. 40. Match the definition:A little bit. A) Vehemently. B) Mockery. C) Trifle. D) Fury. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trifle. 41. Synonym for passionately A) Acute. B) Sagacity. C) Vehemently. D) Audacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vehemently. 42. The boy creeped ..... into his house after curfew. A) Hideous. B) Stifled. C) Distracted. D) Stealthily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stealthily. 43. Second person point of view A) A narrative. B) Bird's eye view of the story. C) Evidence from the text. D) Directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Directions. 44. How did the narrator dispose of the old man's body? A) Buried it in the garden. B) Threw it in the river. C) Burned it in the fireplace. D) Dismembered it and hid the parts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dismembered it and hid the parts. 45. Definition:thinking ahead A) Hearken. B) Waned. C) Foresight. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foresight. 46. Aggressive boldness. A) Derision. B) Profound. C) Audacity. D) Sagacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audacity. 47. Foresight means ..... A) Thoughtful about the future. B) Hiding. C) Clearly defined. D) Troubled, distressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thoughtful about the future. 48. Why is the suspense in a horror story greater than in other stories? A) C Characters in horror stories are scarier than characters in other stories. B) A Horror writers are better at creating suspense than other writers. C) D There is tension because monsters in horror stories do unexpected things. D) B Readers know from the start that something bad is going to happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B Readers know from the start that something bad is going to happen. 49. My brother loves to ..... me whenever he gets a chance. A) Vex. B) Refrained. C) Wary. D) Gesticulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vex. 50. I talked more and with a heightened voice. A) Whisper. B) Loud. C) Climb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loud. 51. V. to lay at rest A) Reposed. B) Bade. C) Hearkening. D) Concealment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reposed. 52. Why does the narrator tell the officers to "tear up the planks" ? A) He wanted to be caught for the crime all along. B) He knew that they would find the evidence eventually. C) He believes they hear the heartbeat and are mocking him. D) He hears the old man heartbeat and believes he is still alive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He believes they hear the heartbeat and are mocking him. 53. His violent ..... did not disturb the police officers. A) Sagacity. B) Gesticulations. C) Suavity. D) Derision. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gesticulations. 54. When was Edgar Allan Poe born? A) 1835. B) 1809. C) 2008. D) 1908. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1809. 55. Having or showing great knowledge or understanding; very deeply felt A) Sufficient. B) Resolved. C) Vexed. D) Profound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Profound. 56. What is another term for an informed guess or hypothesis? A) Suavity. B) Reposed. C) Bade. D) Suppositions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suppositions. 57. To be honest and direct A) Straightforward. B) Mocking. C) Triumphant. D) Vexed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Straightforward. 58. Choose the synonym for 'audacity': A) Boldness. B) Courage. C) Timidity. D) Fearlessness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boldness. 59. Which statement best describes a major theme of the story. A) People can never truly escape the terrible things they have done. B) People without remorse can commit terrible crimes without consequences. C) People often make a mistake while committing a crime because of their arrogance. D) People who are very lonely may turn their feelings on others and cause them harm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People can never truly escape the terrible things they have done. 60. What is a synonym for 'Setting'? A) Conflict. B) Character. C) Point of View. D) Environment. 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