Reading comprehension The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (Tell-tale: A person who tells other people, usually

a teacher or their parents, if someone has done bad things.) To give you practise on reading comprehension please read The TellTale Heart and answer the questions:

1. The man telling the story hated the old man: False 2. The old man had a pale, blue eye: False 3. The man took one hour to put his head inside the door: False 4. What did the old man do when he heard a noise? 5. How did the old man die? 6. What happened to the body of the old man?

True True True

7. The policemen came to the house because they had heard a whistle: True False 8. What was the ringing noise the man heard?