HALLOWEEN READING CONTEST / BACHILLERATO: THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe

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I hope you enjoy reading this terrifying and unforgettable tale by Edgar Allan Poe. To read it, simply click on the link above. If you want to enter the contest you only have to pick up a paper from the poster next to the library, answer the questions and put the paper inside the English letterbox before Wednesday 29th. The list of the winners will be on display on Thursday 30th. HAVE A TERRIFIC TIME!



Edgar Allan Poe

QUESTIONS:

1.  How was the man feeling at the opening of the story? A.  Angry B.  Nervous C.  Hungry 2.  What sense was acute in the beginning of the story? A.  Smell B.  Sight C.  Hearing 3.  Why did the man kill the old man? A.  For his gold B.  Because of his pale blue eye C.  Because the old man wronged him 4.  What did the man try to convince he was NOT? A.  Mad B.  Stupid C.  Evil 5.  What was the old man doing while he was sitting up in bed as he had done night after night? A.  Listening to a clock ticking B.  Listening to his beating heart C.  Hearkening to the death watches 6.  What caused the old man to feel the head of the man in his room (in the opinion of the man)? A.  The unperceived shadow B.  The beam of light C.  The creaking door 7.  How did the man describe the groan he heard? A.  One of pain B.  One of grief C.  One of mortal terror 8.  How did the man feel when he opened the lantern and saw the old man's open eye? A.  Furious B.  Afraid C.  Calm 9.  How did the man kill the old man? A.  By smothering him with a pillow B.  By choking him with his hands C.  By pulling the heavy bed over him 10.  Where did the man put the old man's body parts after he killed him? A.  Under the planks in the floor B.  In the old man's garden   C. In the old man's closet 11.  When there was a knock at the door after the old man's death, the man opened the door with a light heart.  Why? A.  He had thought up an alibi or cover story    for what had happened B.  He had a weapon on him C.  He thought everything was cleaned up with no evidence of blood. 12.  How did the police find out the man had killed the old man? A.  A neighbor said he saw the man kill the old man B.  The police found the body on their own as they searched the house C.  The man shrieked "I admit the deed!" 13.  What was the tell-tale heart? A.  The old man's heart B.  The man's beating heart C.  The heart of the unperceived shadow