Q 01/05

In The Tell-Tale Heart, where does the narrator hide the old man's body after the murder?

A) Inside the chimney

B) Behind a bricked-up wall

C) Under the floorboards

D) Beneath the garden

Answer · why

C) Under the floorboards

Under the floorboards is where the remains go, and the narrator replaces the planks so neatly he boasts no human eye could spot anything wrong. Soon a...

Q 02/05

In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator says the old man's filmy eye resembles that of which bird?

A) A vulture

B) A hawk

C) A barn owl

D) A crow

Answer · why

A) A vulture

A vulture is the comparison, and the narrator's blood runs cold whenever that eye falls on him. He insists it was never the old man who vexed him, onl...

Q 03/05

Which cartoon reworked The Tell-Tale Heart with a boss tormented by buried squeaky boots?

A) Courage the Cowardly Dog

B) SpongeBob SquarePants

C) Rocko's Modern Life

D) The Angry Beavers

Answer · why

B) SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants did it in the 1999 episode Squeaky Boots, with the squeaks standing in for the beating heart. Mr. Krabs cracks, confesses to ste...

Q 04/05

Ironically, the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart describes his murder in detail to prove what?

A) His innocence

B) His courage

C) His loyalty

D) His sanity

Answer · why

D) His sanity

His sanity is the case he argues from the opening lines, pointing to how calmly and carefully he planned. The more precisely he explains himself, the ...

Q 05/05

How does the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart describe his feelings for the old man he murders?

A) He loved him

B) He envied him

C) He feared him

D) He despised him

Answer · why

A) He loved him

He loved him, the narrator says, adding that the old man had never wronged or insulted him. He names neither object nor passion for the crime, only th...