
8th grade Tell-Tale Heart Mid-Term Review
Quiz by Shanae Herron
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Which of the narrator’s senses does he say is most acute?
Which of the following statements about the narrator is true?
What makes the 8th-night different from the previous 7 nights that the narrator stalked the old man from his bedroom door?
What does the narrator do when he hears the anxiety-provoking sound as he's talking to the police?
Why does the old man sit up and bed and say, "It is nothing but the wind in the chimney - it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp?"
Why does the narrator admit his crime?
Where does the narrator hide the old man's corpse?
Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?
Why does the narrator think the police officers don't hear the noise?
What do we learn about the narrator when he asks the police officers to sit and rest in the same room where he's hidden the body?
How does the narrator murder the old man?
What was the low, dull, quick sound that the narrator heard?