Assessment timer and count Assessment items Item 5 Read this excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. And now a new anxiety seized me—the sound would be heard by a neighbor! The old man’s hour had come! How does this incident provoke the narrator's decision to murder the old man? A. The narrator is afraid someone will hear the old man's heartbeat, thwarting his chance to commit the murder.

B. The narrator needs to stop the old man's loud screaming, so he springs into action immediately.

C. The narrator has written in his diary the precise moment he wished to kill the old man, and that moment has finally arrived.

D. The narrator hates the old man's voice more than he hates the old man's glassy eye, and this pushes the narrator over the edge.

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

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Which word best describes the author's tone in this excerpt from "that spot" by jack london? i don’t think much of stephen mackaye any more, though i used to swear by him. i know that in those days i loved him more than my own brother. if ever i meet stephen mackaye again, i shall not be responsible for my actions. it passes beyond me that a man with whom i shared food and blanket, and with whom i mushed over the chilcoot trail, should turn out the way he did. i always sized steve up as a square man, a kindly comrade, without an iota of anything vindictive or malicious in his nature. i shall never trust my judgment in men again. why, i nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the stewart; and he saved my life on the little salmon. and now, after the years we were together, all i can say of stephen mackaye is that he is the meanest man i ever knew. a. excited b. ironic c. indignant d. playful