Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” — Unit test Answers

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.. . . and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror."O God!" I screamed, and "O God!" again and again; for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll!

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Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey . . .

Based on Poole’s behavior in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, readers can infer that he

Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart.”TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.Read the excerpt from "The Black Cat.”Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place—some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.

Read the passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Guest’s eyes brightened, and he sat down at once and studied it with passion. "No sir,” he said: "not mad; but it is an odd hand.”"And by all accounts a very odd writer,” added the lawyer.Just then the servant entered with a note."Is that from Dr. Jekyll, sir?” inquired the clerk. "I thought I knew the writing. Anything private, Mr. Utterson?”"Only an invitation to dinner. Why? Do you want to see it?”"One moment. I thank you, sir;” and the clerk laid the two sheets of paper alongside and sedulously compared their contents. "Thank you, sir,” he said at last, returning both; "it’s a very interesting autograph.”

Which statement about The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is correct?

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. I was once more Edward Hyde. A moment before I had been safe of all men’s respect, wealthy, beloved—the cloth laying for me in the dining-room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.

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