"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

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English
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8th Grade
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1.
Multiple Choice
1) What is the main conflict in the story?
A. man vs. man
B. man vs. machine
C. man vs. self
D. man vs. society
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Multiple Choice
2) What is the climax of the story?
A. The narrator plans to kill the old man.
B. The narrator watches the old man for seven nights.
C. The narrator kills and dismembers the old man.
D. The narrator confesses.
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Multiple Choice
5) Based on the evidence in the story, what is the best description of the relationship between the narrator and the old man?
A. The old man is the father of the narrator.
B. The narrator is the teacher of the old man.
C. The old man is the narrator’s boss.
D. The narrator stalks the old man despite never meeting him formally.
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Multiple Choice
7) You can evaluate the narrator’s state of mind as unreliable when he:
A. explains that he did not kill the old man for his money
B. describes how slowly he moved on the night of the murder
C. confesses in the beginning of the story that he is nervous
D. says how sane he is but then describes what he does to the body
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Multiple Choice
8) What is the best evidence from the text that the narrator is mad?
A. But you should have seen me. During all of that week I was as friendly to the old man as I could be, and warm, and loving.
B. And every morning I went to his room, and with a warm, friendly voice I asked him how he had slept.
C. The old man was lying there not dreaming that I was at his door. Suddenly he moved in his bed.
D. But why does his heart not stop beating?!
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