The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

Question 1

The police arrive at the narrator's house how many days after the murder?

• two
• three
• one
• four

Question 2

The narrator's first black cat's name is

• Venus
• Neptune
• Mars
• Pluto

Question 3

When the wall was knocked down, the policemen saw the black cat

• pacing the "tomb"
• perched on the wife's head
• sitting on the floor
• jumping out at them

Question 4

The narrator says he is going to die when?

• on Monday
• in a week
• tonight
• tomorrow

Question 5

The common superstition about black cats, which his wife believes, is that they are

• witches in disguise
• bad luck
• able to cast spells
• good luck

Question 6

Which kind of animal did the narrator and his wife NOT have when they first got married?

• hamster
• rabbit
• monkey
• goldfish

Question 7

Things begin to go badly for the narrator, he says, when he becomes a victim of the Fiend

• Anger
• Intemperance
• Slothfulness
• Greed

Question 8

The narrator dislodges the bricks in the wall with

• an axe
• a sledgehammer
• a crowbar
• his knife

Question 9

One night the narrator cuts his cat's

• tail
• paw
• eye
• ear

Question 10

A "conflagration" is a 

• great fire
• large gathering of people
• group of church-goers
• flood

Question 11

Why does the narrator's wife accompany him to the cellar?

• to clean it out
• to put something in storage
• to do a household errand
• to look for the cat

Question 12

Where is the narrator when he finds his second black cat?

• his backyard
• a den of iniquity
• at work
• under his bed