The Black Cat Test

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Name: Class: Date:

“The Black Cat” Test Short Answer: Choose 15 of the following and answer using complete sentences. Answers should only be 1-2 sentences. (5 points each: 3 for the correct answer, and 2 for complete sentence) 1. How did the narrator change over the years? Why do you think he became this way? 2. What did the narrator do to the cat after returning home intoxicated one night? Why did he do this? 3. How did the narrator feel about what he did to the cat? 4. What are the reasons the narrator gives for hanging Pluto? 5. What happened the night he hung Pluto? Was this a coincidence? 6. Why did one wall remain after the fire? 7. How was the new cat different from Pluto? Explain what the difference might represent. 8. Why did the narrator begin to dislike the new cat? 9. Why wouldn’t the narrator harm the new cat? 10. What did the narrator do to his wife in the cellar? Explain how this happened and why it happened. 11.

How did he conceal the body?

12. Why does the narrator blame the cat for his wife’s death? 13.

Did the narrator regret killing his wife? Explain

14. Why does the narrator mention the construction of the walls and house to the police? 15. How does the police find his wife’s body? What is the narrator’s future? 16.

How does Edgar Allan Poe reveal the narrator’s

Name: Class: Date: character? 17.

How essential is the setting to the story?

18.

What is the significance of the cat’s name, Pluto?

19. Why is it significant that the second cat will not leave the narrator alone? 20. Why does the narrator sleep well after he conceals the body?

Essay: Choose 1 of the following and answer using complete sentences. Must consist of 3 paragraphs and 200 words. (25 points: 10 for correct answer, 3 points for each paragraph, 6 points for word count) 1. How do you explain the ending? Discuss the symbolism. 2. What value does using the first person narrative add to the story? 3. “Have we not a perpetual inclination….to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?” Explain this rhetorical question by Poe.