[The Tell-Tale Heart – Fill in the Blanks
🔹 1. The Tell-Tale Heart was written by __________.
(Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Lamb, Jack London)
🔹 2. The narrator repeatedly claims that he is not __________.
(angry, poor, mad, lonely)
🔹 3. The narrator says that his disease had sharpened his sense of __________.
(hearing, taste, touch, smell)
🔹 4. The narrator compares the old man’s eye to the eye of a __________.
(hawk, owl, eagle, vulture)
🔹 5. The old man’s eye was __________ in colour.
(dark brown, pale blue, bright green, deep black)
🔹 6. The narrator decides to kill the old man because of his __________.
(gold, voice, eye, behaviour)
🔹 7. The narrator enters the old man’s room every night at __________.
(midnight, sunset, noon, dawn)
🔹 8. The narrator carries a dark __________ into the old man’s room.
(candle, lamp, lantern, torch)
🔹 9. The narrator secretly watches the old man for __________ nights before killing him.
(five, six, seven, nine)
🔹 10. The narrator kills the old man on the __________ night.
(sixth, seventh, ninth, eighth)
🔹 11. The old man wakes up when the narrator’s thumb slips on the __________ of the lantern.
(glass cover, tin fastening, wooden handle, iron chain)
🔹 12. The narrator compares the old man’s heartbeat to the sound of a __________ wrapped in cotton.
(watch, drum, bell, clock tower)
🔹 13. The narrator kills the old man by pulling the heavy __________ over him.
(table, cupboard, bed, curtain)
🔹 14. After the murder, the narrator __________ the old man’s body.
(buries, burns, dismembers, abandons)
🔹 15. The narrator hides the body beneath the __________.
(bed, floorboards, staircase, garden)
🔹 16. The police arrive at the house at __________ in the morning.
(two o’clock, three o’clock, five o’clock, four o’clock)
🔹 17. The police visit the house because a neighbour heard a __________.
(shriek, gunshot, quarrel, loud song)
🔹 18. The narrator tells the police that the old man is away in the __________.
(hospital, city, country, market)
🔹 19. While talking to the police, the narrator imagines that he can hear the old man’s __________.
(footsteps, voice, breathing, heartbeat)
🔹 20. In the end, the narrator __________ his crime.
(confesses, forgets, denies, escapes)
Answer Key
✅ 1. Edgar Allan Poe
✅ 2. mad
✅ 3. hearing
✅ 4. vulture
✅ 5. pale blue
✅ 6. eye
✅ 7. midnight
✅ 8. lantern
✅ 9. seven
✅ 10. eighth
✅ 11. tin fastening
✅ 12. watch
✅ 13. bed
✅ 14. dismembers
✅ 15. floorboards
✅ 16. four o’clock
✅ 17. shriek
✅ 18. country
✅ 19. heartbeat
✅ 20. confesses