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1. The Tell-Tale Heart: put the following events in the right order.

1) 6. The narrator hears the old man’s heart beat louder and louder.
2) 7. The narrator leaps into the old man’s room and takes his life.
3) 1. The narrator tells us that the disease has sharpened his senses.
4) 2. The narrator is bothered by the old man’s eye and decides to take his life.
5) 9. Police arrive at the narrator’s house.
6) 5. The narrator looks into the old man’s room and sees the eye open.
7) 3. The narrator puts his head in the room to look at the old man for 7 nights.
8) 10. The narrator gives himself away to the police.
9) 8. The narrator conceals the old man under the floor.
10) 4. The old man groans in terror, knowing that someone is watching him.

2. Some of the following sentences are true, some are false. Tick ( ) the sentence if it is true; if the sentence
is not true, rewrite it so that it becomes true.

1) I hated the old man and I wanted his money.

I hated his vulture eye and I wanted money

2) Every day about two o’clock, I opened the old man’s door and looked at him.

Every night at about two o'clock' I opened the old man's door and looked at him.

3) The old man gave a loud cry of fear as I fell upon him.

*tick*

4) I killed the old man with only my hands.

I killed the old man with bed covers.

5) I hid the old man’s body in the ground.

*tick*

6) Three neighbors came to my door.

Three policemen came to my door.

7) While talking with the policemen I heard a strange sound in my head.

*tick*

8) The policemen heard the old man’s heart beating.

The policemen didn't hear the old man's heart beating.

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3. In this exercise you have three choices: a, b and c. Choose the one which most nearly means the same as
the underlined words.
1) I heard sounds from the place where the evil are punished after death.
a) universe
b) hell
c) heaven
2) Why do you say that I am out of my mind?
a) bad
b) angry
c) mad
3) It is not possible to say how the idea first entered my head.
a) impossible
b) inpossible
c) unpossible
4) Slowly, by degrees, I lifted the cloth.
a) little by little
b) in little
c) not a little
5) I pushed my chair across the floor to cover that dreadful sound.
a) loud
b) frightened
c) terrible

4. Answer the following questions.

1) Why did I want to kill the old

man? Because of his vulture eyes.

2) What did I do every night at midnight? Checked to see the old man's vulture eye.

3) What did I do every morning? Went to his room with a warm friendly voice to ask how he slept.

4) What did the old man say on the eighth night when I opened the door? "Who's there?"

5) Was the old man afraid? How do you know? Yes, he let out a cry of fear.

6) What did I see when I lifted the cloth? His vulture eye.

7) How did I kill the old man? I suffocated him with bed sheets.

8) What did I do with the old man’s body? Cut it into pieces and hid them under the floorboards.

9) What was the strange sound in my ears as I talked with the policemen? The heartbeat of the old

man.

10) Whose heartbeat was I hearing? The old man's.

11) When I could bear it no longer, what did I do? Confessed to the police.

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5. Why do you think the narrator confessed to the murder? Give a detailed explanation.

The sound of the old man's heartbeat became increasingly loud and unbearable for him, causing him to
lose his sanity. Despite this, the policemen continued talking to the narrator and smiled as if they were
unable to hear the noise.

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