Test of The Tell-Tale Heart
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- What are the best characteristics to psychologically describe the
environment of 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
Calmness, relaxation, and trust.
b) Terror, bloody and big.
c) Bright, cheerful, and small.
d) Tension, madness, and fear.
2.- According to the text 'The Telltale Heart', which alternative best expresses the cause
Why do they discover the protagonist's crime?
a) Because the guilt made him betray himself.
b) Because the neighbors heard the victim scream.
c) Because the detectives noticed him very nervous.
d) Because there was a sound under the floor.
3.- How would you best describe the protagonist of 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
Revengeful
Careful
c) Evil
d) Persecuted
4.-Why does the protagonist of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' not believe he is crazy?
a) Because it was the only crime he committed in his life.
b) Because the old man deserved to die.
c) Because a madman doesn't plan a crime so well.
d) Because deep down he cared for the old man.
5.- We can say that the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" corresponds to:
a) Witness narrator, because he participates in the story but nothing happens to him.
b) Protagonist narrator, because he recounts what happens to him.
c) Omniscient narrator, because he knows everything that everyone feels and what is going to happen.
to pass.
d) Observer narrator, because it only looks from afar
6.-The character in "The Tell-Tale Heart" considers himself:
a crazy person
a sane person
a killer man
a lying man
In the work 'The Tell-Tale Heart' the character:
a) Kills the old man by taking out his glass eye and leaving him to bleed.
b) He stabs the old man to death and buries him in the backyard of the house.
c) Kill the old man, dismember him and hide him inside a wall of the house.
d) Kill the old man, dismember him and bury him under the floorboards.
2. Why does the killer feel so much hatred towards his victim and why does he kill them?
3. Is that a sufficient reason to do what he/she did? Justify.
4. Can it be said that the protagonist of the story is crazy? Justify with
examples of the text.
5. What does the killer do to get rid of the body? How does he hide it?
6. Why does the police arrive at the killer's house?
7. What attitude does the killer take when the police arrive at the house? How does he address them?
8. What did the killer compare the old man's heartbeat to?
9. Why does the police discover the macabre crime?
10. What feeling seized the murderer and compelled him to confess the facts?
Every night, around twelve, I would turn the doorknob and open it...
Oh, so gently! And then, when the opening was wide enough to
passing the head, raised a lantern, closed, completely closed, of
in such a way that no light could be seen, and behind it passed the head...
It took me a whole hour to completely get my head through the opening of
the door, until seeing him lying in his bed. Could a madman have been so
prudent like me? And then, when my head was completely inside the
room, I opened the flashlight cautiously... And I did this for seven long
nights... every night, at twelve... but I always found the eye closed, and that's why
It was impossible for me to complete my work, because it wasn't the old man who irritated me, but the
evil eye
a) Rereading these paragraphs, why none of the first seven nights
Did the protagonist manage to commit the crime? Explain.
b) Briefly describe, physically and psychologically, the environment where it takes place.
this story, taking into account what was mentioned in the fragment.