University:
University of Puget Sound
Course:
ENGL 371 | History of The English Language
Academic year:

2023
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2
Author:

Ximena Stanley

Quiz on The Black Cat Answers 1. In the first few paragraphs, the narrator gives us some background information about himself. What does he most stress? Answer: The speaker talks about animals a lot. 2. Who was Pluto? Answer: The storyteller's first cat. 3. Describe the relationship between Pluto and the narrator. Answer: He cared about the cat, but when he was drunk, he killed it. 4. What was the first violent act the narrator did to Pluto? Answer: Pluto's eye was cut out by him. 5. What second act (the narrator describes as being done in the spirit of perverseness) did he commit on Pluto? Answer: He put Pluto up. 6. On the night the narrator killed Pluto, what happened to his home? Answer: The house caught fire. 7. Describe the second cat. Answer: The cat looks like the first cat, but it has a nice shape. 8. Describe the relationship between the second cat and the narrator. Answer: The person telling the story hates the cat because it's following the wife. 9. What peculiar mark did the cat have? Answer: There was a white spot on the cat's chest or neck. 10. Why did the narrator kill his wife? Answer: It was his wife who tried to stop him from killing cat #2, so he killed her. 11. How did he dispose of the body? Answer: He hides the body behind a wall with bricks. 12. Who came on the fourth day after the murder? Answer: The police showed up. 13. What was the narrator's reaction to the police? Answer: He shows the police around the basement. 14. How did the police discover the body? Answer: The wall fell apart when the narrator hit it. The cat also began to scream. 15. Where is the climax of the story? Answer: When the cat starts to scream 16. Which is more important to Poe's purpose: the murders or the revealing of the narrator's mental state? Answer: Getting into the narrator's mind. 17. Why is the setting of the story vague? Answer: It doesn't matter where the story takes place. 18. What value does use the first-person narrative add to the story? Answer: How to describe the character. 19. "Have we not a perpetual inclination . . . to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?" Answer Poe's rhetorical question. Answer: People will do anything to get what they want.

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