
Tell-Tale Heart: pre-reading vocabulary
Quiz by Mary Stormon-Flynn
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- Q1A VULTURE is a bird that hovers over and eats creatures that are ...sickdeadfrightenedunhappy30s
- Q2A vulture's eyes ...are darkdo not have a good ability to seeare very clearare very unclear and unblurry30s
- Q3The expression, "My blood ran cold" means ...you feel coldyou feel very uncomfortableyou are deadyou feel comfortable30s
- Q4In the story, the Tell-Tale Heart, there is an old man with an ugly eye.TrueThe story doesn't tell us this.FalseThere are two men with an ugly eye.30s
- Q5In the story, a young man lives in the house of an old man.The story doesn't tell us this.FalseTrue30s
- Q6The young man in the house calls the old man's eye, an ...unattractive eyeevil eyeuncomfortableugly eye30s
- Q7The young man gets .... when he looks at the old man's eye.nervousunhappysickangry30s
- Q8The old man's eye "vexes" the young man. A SYNONYM for "vexes" is ...looks atannoysstares atscares30s
- Q9In the story, the young man wants to kill the old man.TrueThe story doesn't tell us.False30s
- Q10Neighbors hear loud sounds from the old man's house. Neighbors are ...your friendspeople who are walking by your housepeople who live near your homeyour family30s
- Q11The story takes place ...in the middle of the dayin the afternoonin the morningat night30s
- Q12The EXPOSITION of a story is ...the most exciting part of a storythe conflictwhen the action rises (gets better)the introduction / the beginning30s
- Q13The CLIMAX is ...when the action risesthe end of a storythe most exciting part of a storythe introduction or beginning30s
- Q14A SYNONYM for "rise" in "The action rises" is ...ascendsendsstartsdescends30s
- Q15A SYNONYM for "ascend" in, "The action ascends" is ...endsrisesdescendsstarts30s