The Black Cat The Black Cat Overview Quiz
by Edgar Allan Poe

Question 1

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

• one
• four
• three
• two

Question 2

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

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

Question 3

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

• hamster
• monkey
• rabbit
• goldfish

Question 4

A "conflagration" is a 

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

Question 5

The narrator says he is going to die when?

• tomorrow
• in a week
• tonight
• on Monday

Question 6

The narrator's first black cat's name is

• Venus
• Pluto
• Neptune
• Mars

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

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

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

Question 9

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

• Slothfulness
• Greed
• Anger
• Intemperance

Question 10

The narrator dislodges the bricks in the wall with

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

Question 11

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

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

Question 12

One night the narrator cuts his cat's

• ear
• tail
• eye
• paw