Black Cat Quiz

What happens to the narrator's home?

• It burns down within 24 hours of him hanging his cat

• It burns down a month after he hanged the cat

• It is flooded by a freak lightning storm

• It is foreclosed on and he is evicted due to nonpayment

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What bizarre shape is seen on the wall of his home?

• a cat

• a noose

• a bottle

• a devil

What happens after he kills Pluto?

• He never gets another pet

• He finds a one-eyed almost completely black cat and takes it home

• He gets a dog and swears to never get another cat

• His wife brings home a stray cat

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Why does the narrator begin to dislike his second pet?

• Because it shows him too much affection, which disgusts him

• Because it avoids him and disliked him

• because it is diseased

• he does not get a second pet

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How does his wife die?

• He hits her in the head with an axe

• He knocks her down a flight of stairs

• He beats her with his bare hands

• She does not die

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Where does he hide his wife's body?

• he doesn't, she is not dead

• He walls it up in the cellar

• he buries her in the back yard

• he chops her up and burns her in the chimney

Why is he arrested?

• He deliberately draws the police's attention to where he hid the body

• The body begins to smell, so the police find it

• He is arrested for public intoxication, then they notice his clothes are bloody

• He is never arrested

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What is shrieking in his wife's tomb ?

• his wife--she is still alive

• the cat

• His pet bird

• nothing--it is in his head

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What is an unreliable narrator?

• a narrator who is too young, drunk, or disturbed to accurately relay info

• a narrator who is not a character in the story, but is really just the author

• when a story is written in the 3rd person, but focuses on one character

• when a story is in 2nd person

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What is unusual about the narrator's tone?

• he seems very matter of fact about what he has done

• he is overly angry and impossible to follow

• nothing, he is normal

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