The following 15-question multiple choice quiz on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" does not feature simple, low level comprehension questions on the work's story/plot. The quiz features high level, critical thinking questions that analyze students' understanding of the work's central conflict, diction, figurative language, indirect characterization, inferences, irony, plot (climax, falling action, and resolution), point of view, setting, style, and title significance.