Starter quiz
- What is a symbol?
- a character who represents an approach
- an object that represents an idea ✓
- a narrative structure
- an object that represents the characters
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- At which points in 'The Tell-Tale Heart' does the narrator hear the beating heart of the old man?
- in the beginning when he spies on the old man
- when he sneaks into the old man's room and is hiding in wait to kill him ✓
- when the police first arrive at the house, just after he has killed the old man
- when the police have sat down and are conversing with the narrator ✓
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- Which words are used to describe the old man's eye in 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
- "pale, blue, vulture-like" ✓
- "milky, white, rat-like"
- "pale, opaque and eel-like"
- "blue, bright, snake-like"
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- Robbers intrude on people's homes. What might 'to intrude' mean?
- to enter somewhere you are not supposed to be ✓
- to say something you are not supposed to say
- to take something that is not yours
- to move something away from its correct home
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- How does the narrator in 'The Tell-Tale Heart' murder the old man?
- He stabs him and then lets him bleed out
- He strangles him with his bare hands
- He hits him over the head with a floor board
- He smothers him with his own bed ✓
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- Which of the following quotations best shows the narrator's hysteria and loss of control in 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
- "But even yet I refrained and kept still. I scarcely breathed."
- "I bade the gentlemen welcome."
- "Oh God! what could I do? I foamed—I raved—I swore!" ✓
- "Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. "
- "You should have seen how wisely I proceeded—with what caution"
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