The
Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
Choose the
correct option
1-
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is the penwork of _____________
a. Richard
Haword
b. John Milton
c. Edgar Allan Poe
d. Emily
Dickinson
2- He was
born on _________
a. 12 March
1800
b. 19 January 1809
c. 20 June
1819
d. 23 Dec 1908
3- He
was the __________
a. poet
b. editor and
literary critic
c. American
writer
d. all of above
4- Poe is
best known for his __________
a. luxurious
life
b. poetry
c. short
stories
d. both b and c
5- He is
widely regarded as a central figure of ___________ in the United States
a. criticism
b. socialism
c. Romanticism
d. none of
these
6- He is
also generally considered the inventor of the ___________
a. computer
b. languages
c. detective fiction
d. detective
non-fiction
7- Poe was
born in __________
a. Sicily
b. Ireland
c. Boston
d. Emilia
8-He is the
second child of actor ___________
a. David
b. Elizabeth
c. Henry
d. both a and b
9- His
father abandoned the family in _______
a. 1809
b. 1810
c. 1811
d. 1812
10- Poe
married Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe in
_________
a. 1830
b. 1832
c. 1834
d. 1836
11- Poe
died on _______
a. 7 Oct 1849
b. 5 June 1850
c. 9 March
1851
d. 10 Dec 1853
12- Poe died
at the age of _________
a. 35
b. 40
c. 45
d. 50
13- Poe
died in __________
a. Baltimore, Maryland
b. Ireland
c. Italy
d. none of
these
14- He studied
at __________
a. University
of Virginia
b. United
States Military Academy
c. Oxford
University
d. both a and b
15- Poe is perhaps the most complex _________
writer
a. England
b. American
c. Italian
d. Greenland
16- He can
create an atmosphere of _________
a. horror
b. strange
fantasies
c. psychological
abnormalities
d. all of above
17- The
___________ is also a story of horror and suspense
a. The Tell-Tale Heart
b. The Duchess
and the Jeweler
c. The Araby
d. none of
these
18- The
writer surprises the reader by declaring that he wished to kill the __________
a. dog
b. lady
c. baby
d. old man
19- He did
not like one of his _________
a. hand
b. ear
c. eye
d. arm
20- He
______ the reader throughout the story
a. haunts
b. relaxes
c. hates
d. loves
21- He
could not face the prick of his conscious in the form of his ___________
a. face
b. horror
c. loud heart beat
d. enemy
22- He
confesses his crime before the ________
a. old man
b. police
c. lady
d. judge
23- He
tells that he is not _______
a. mad
b. doctor
c. teacher
d. policeman
24- It was
like the eye of __________
a. animal
b. his enemy
c. vulture eye
25- The
murderer loved the ___________
a. old man
b. lady
c. teacher
d. doctor
26- He
decided to kill him in order to get rid of his _______
a. face
b. evil eye
c. hand
d. none of
these
27- He
continued trying to kill the old man for __________
a. 5 nights
b. 6 nights
c. 7 nights
d. 8 nights
28- He
could not kill him because he always found _________
a. him awake
b. his eye closed
c. not there
d. none of
these
29- He
wanted to enter the room but his thumb slipped on the ___________
a. door
b. door handle
c. fastening of the lantern
d. button of
touch
30- The old
man sprang up in his _________
a. sofa
b. chair
c. wheel chair
d. bed
31- The
murderer kept himself still for about _________
a. two days
b. an hour
c. a day
d. a night
32- Then he
heard the sound of his _________
a. crying
b. laughing
c. groaning
d. smiling
33- He
dragged the _______ on the floor
a. young man
b. police man
c. old man
d. thief
34- The old
man was dead because of _________
a. bullet
b. disease
c. cancer
d. suffocation
35- He took
up ____ planks from the floor
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
36- When he
had finished his work, _______ policemen arrived
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
37- A
shriek had been heard by a __________
a. doctor
b. policemen
c. neighbour
d. officer
38- The murderer,
however, satisfied them that the shriek had been uttered by __________
a. their quarrel
b. him in a dream
c. a character
in a movie
d. none of
these
39- The old
man had gone to the _________
a. village
b. school
c. office
d. city
40- The
policemen sat down for ________
a. the
investigation
b. a tea
c. a chat
d. a party
41- The
_________ became intolerable for the murderer
a. policemen
b. heartbeat of an old man
c. presence of
an old man
d. gossips of
the policemen
42- He had
no way out except to confess his ________
a. prank
b. naughtiness
c. crime
d. mistake
43- At ____ O'clock, the killer disposed of the
old man's dead body
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
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