Answer these questions about Edgar Allan Poe's the tell tale heart - 1. What is the reason that the narrator gives for wanting t
o kill the old man? a. He does not like the old man's eye
.b. He wants the old man's gold.
c. The old man insulted the narrator's girlfriend.
d. The old man treats him poorly.
2. Which best summarizes the narrator's argument in the third paragraph?
a. He argues that he is not angry because he has been checking on the old man while he sleeps.
b. He argues that he is not crazy because he hasbeen very kind to the old man.
c. He argues that he is not angry because he has been bringing the old man his lantern every night.
d. He argues that he is not crazy because he plotted the murder very carefully.3.
According to the narrator, why does he fail to kill the old man the first seven nights?
a. The old man awoke at the sound of the creaking door.
b. The narrator felt bad about what he was doing.
c. The narrator's lantern woke the old man.
d. The old manwas sleeping with both of his eyes closed.
4. Which statement does NOT apply to the narrator?
a. He is careful.
b. He is deceptive.
c. He is impatient.
d. He is insane.
5. Which figurative language technique is used in the following sentence?"Yes, he was stone,stone dead."
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Understatement
d. Hyperbole
6. From what perspective is the story narrated?
a. First-person
b. Second-person
c. Third-person objective
d. Third-person limited
7. What sound causes the narrator to hasten or rush the murder of the old man?
a. The old man groaning
b. The clock ticking
c. The old man's heart
d. The narrator's thumb slipping on the lantern
8. Why do the police officers come to the narrator's home?
a. They heard a loud banging noise while out on patrol.
b. A neighbor contacted the police after hearing a scream.
c. They are responding to reports of an escaped mental patient in the area
d. The old man called the police after being attacked.
9. Which of the following is NOTone of the steps that the narrator took to cover up his crime?
a. He chops up the old man's body in the bathtub.
b. He charms the police officers and tells them lies.
c. He puts the old man's body under the floorboards.
d. He burns the clothes that he was wearing.
10. How does the narrator get caught?
a. The police officers trick the narrator into admitting his guilt.
b. A witness told the police officers what happened.
c. The police officers coerce the narrator into confessing
d. The narrator confesses because he hears noises in his head.
This question is asking u to convert the number into scientific notation. pretend there's a decimal behind the last zero. move that decimal in between 3 and 4. and count how many digits u went. it's 14. so 3.48 X 10^14 so verbally it's three and forty-eight thousandths times 10 to the fourteenth power. <span />
