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Questions for "The Black Cat" 1. How does Poe use the device of flashback in "The Black Cat"? 2. Where is the narrator as he is telling his story? 3. Why is the narrator telling the story? 4. What was the narrator like as a child? As a young married man? 5. What was his wife like? 6. The antagonist is a large black cat named Pluto. Why did the narrator's wife feel perhaps Pluto was a witch? 7. Describe Pluto. Why do you think Poe selected it? 8. What occurred that cost Pluto an eye? 9. How does the narrator feel about this act after it is done? 10. How did Pluto react to the narrator after he hurt him? 11. What does the narrator mean by "perverseness"? 12. What happened the night the narrator killed Pluto? How did it affect the narrator financially? 13. What image was burned on the one remaining wall of the house? How did the narrator account for the image? 14. Why did the narrator seek a new cat, and how did he find one? 15. In what way does the new cat compare to Pluto? 16. Why did the narrator begin to loathe the new cat? What was the cat's response? 17. What prevented the narrator from mistreating the new cat? 18. What form began to appear on the breast of the new cat? How did this affect the narrator? 19. Describe the events leading to the death of the narrator's wife. 20. What ideas did the narrator reject concerning the disposal of the body? 21. Why did the narrator think the cat had disappeared from his life? What was his reaction? 22. What led to the narrator's downfall? 23. How does this compare to "The Tell-Tale Heart"? 24. How does the theme of retribution apply to the story? 25. How does the theme of reincarnation apply to the story?
Directions: Write the letter of the word that best completes each sentence in the blank to the left. _____1. Three words __ the Kennedy era and what it meant at the time: "Everything seemed possible." _____2. When the Chatham soccer team won the sectionals, the stands __ in victory. _____3. In China, where black hair is the norm, her blonde hair made her very __. _____4. In all the years I have known Sarah, she has never __ any immoral traits. She is goodness incarnate. _____5. In an act of great __, the narrator in "The Black Cat" gouges out the cat's eye. _____6. After the Holocaust many German soldiers were put on trial for the __ they committed during the war. _____7. Edgar Allen Poe incorporates supernatural beings like ________________________, phantasms, and specters into his works. ____ 8. He wanted to become an actor but ________________ to parental pressure to become a lawyer instead. _____9. While mopping her jail cell, Lenore recalled the ____________________ days she'd spent with her children before her incarceration, and she smiled. ____10. Alex regretted his ____________ actions. If he could only go back and change things, he would. ____11. Although it isn't considered unusual for a very young woman to marry a much older man, if the reverse occurs people consider it _____________________. ____12. Robin Hood had no _________________ about robbing the rich. ____13. It was an act of ___________________ when Macduff's young son stood up to Macbeth's henchmen in a vain attempt to stand up for his father. ____14. The irate customer called over his waiter to complain about the ___________________ amount of food on his plate. "This isn't a meal, it's an appetizer!" he vehemently stated.
Matching: Match the word to its definition. There is one extra definition. ____15. insufferable
a. to make (something) less strong
____16. minute ____17. loathing
b. very difficult to understand or know; not showing emotions c. willingly doing what is not right or good
____18. chimera
d. too grievous to bear; unable to be borne e. heinous crime
____19. inscrutable
f. evil, low, mean
____20. vile
g. grotesque; highly ornamental in an elaborate, grotesque manner
____21. baroque
h. a deep-seated dislike or hatred
____22. allay
i. Very small, tiny
____23. atrocity
j. a mythological monster; a hope or dream unlikely to come true
