“Tell-Tale Heart” worksheet

Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence. Incorporate the question as part of the answer.

Comprehension

LC1 1. What is Poe’s unspoken theme in this story?

LC2 2. What does the narrator say his problem is?

LC2 3. Summarize the story in one or two short sentences.

Who:

Wanted to:

But:

So:

Then:

LC4 4. What is a dark lantern?

Analysis

LA5 5. Who is the main character and how does he change?

LA5 6. What is the setting of the story?

LA5 7. When did the murder take place? That is, what day was it and what time?

LA5 8. How did the murder take place?

LA6 9. What did the murderer do with the body?

Thinking Critically

LT8 10. List two details that make the tone of this story scary.

LT9 11. Why did the murder take place? What was the motive?

LT9 12. What does the murderer think he hears at the end of the story?

LT10 13. What is he most likely hearing?

LT10 14. The narrator claims his problem is over acuteness of the senses. What is the narrator’s real problem?