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The Black Cat

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  • How did the narrator kill the poor cat?
    He hung him
  • What is the word (& spelling) for where the narrator would go to drink late at night?
    The inn
  • What is the name of the narrator?
    We don't know
  • What happens to the narrator's house?
    It burns to the ground
  • What disease did the narrator have?
    Alcoholism
  • What does the second black cat do that annoys the narrator?
    Follows him everywhere
  • Why does the narrator think the cat cried at the end?
    As revenge
  • What did the 1st cat do to make the narrator angry?
    Nothing, the narrator thought he was trying to avoid him
  • What is the part of the building called where the narrator first killed the cat, then his wife? (hint: under the house)
    The Cellar
  • What did the narrator like more than people?
    Animals
  • How did the police know where to look for the body?
    They heard a horrible cry
  • How much time passed until the police arrived? (Days, weeks, years)
    Several days
  • What happened to the narrator the night he killed the cat?
    his house burned down
  • When does the narrator say he will die?
    Tomorrow
  • Why did the narrator kill his wife?
    She tried to stop him from killing the cat
  • What was the cat's name?
    Pluto
  • How does the narrator hide the body of his wife?
    He closes her into the fireplace
  • One night, the narrator cuts his cat's.....
    eye
  • Where did the narrator find the 2nd cat?
    the inn
  • What else is behind the wall with the body?
    The 2nd cat
  • How did the narrator cut the cat's eye out?
    With a knife
  • Who wrote "the Black Cat"?
    Edgar Allan Poe
  • Did the narrator kill his wife and then burn her body to get rid of it?
    No
  • How did the narrator kill his wife?
    Put the knife deep in his wife's heart
  • What was the cat's eye filled with when he was found with the body?
    Fire
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