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The narrator plans to kill the old man because…
- he wants his money
- he is obsessed with his eye
- the old man insulted him

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Seven nights in a row, the narrator…
- sneaks into the old man’s room
- drugs the old man
- wakes him up in the middle of the night

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He didn’t kill the old man on the first seven nights because…
- the old man heard him
- the old man had locked his room
- the old man never opened his eyes

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True or false ?
On the eighth night…
- the old man wakes up when the narrator opens the door True / False
- the old man goes back to sleep after a few minutes True / False
- the narrator doesn’t move for an hour after the old man wakes up True / False
- when the narrator finally opens his lantern, the old man is sleeping True / False
- the narrator kills the old man immediately after he opened the lantern True / False

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To get rid of the body, the narrator cuts it to pieces and hides it…
- in a closet
- in the cave
- under the wooden floor

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Three policemen knock at his door at…
- 3 a.m.
- 4 a.m.
- 5 a.m.

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The policemen ask to search the building because…
- someone has seen the murder
- someone has heard a cry
- someone has heard an argument

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How does the narrator react to the arrival of the policemen ?
- he is relaxed
- he is ill-at-ease
- he is worried

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When the policemen inspect the house…
- they don’t find anything suspicious
- they are more and more suspicious
- they immediately find the corpse of the old man

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When the policemen are with him in the old man’s room, the narrator starts…
- seeing blood everywhere
- smelling the corpse
- hearing the beating of the old man’s heart

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The policemen don’t seem to notice anything. The narrator thinks…
- he is just hallucinating
- they pretend not to notice but know what he did
- they are really stupid

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In the end, unable to endure this anymore, the narrator…
- jumps out of the window
- tears up his own ears
- admits the crime