E 2.3.5 "The Black Cat" by Edger Allan Poe

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She likes them but is superstitious that they are witches in disguise.

How does the narrator's wife feel about cats?

He starts abusing his wife and favorite cat, Pluto.

In "The Black Cat," what happens after the narrator's character undergoes "a radical alteration for the worse"?

He cuts out one of the cat's eyes.

What does the narrator do to the first cat after it bites him on the hand?

A second black cat, very similar to the narrator's first cat, appears out of nowhere

What events from "The Black Cat" seem to prove the wife's superstition about cats to be correct?

The house burns to the ground the day after the narrator kills the first cat.

What events from "The Black Cat" seem to prove the wife's superstition about cats to be correct?

That they are witches in disguise

What superstitious belief does the narrator's wife hold about cats?

At the beginning of the story when the narrator says he will die the following day

Where does the falling action, or the place in the story where a character faces the consequences of his or her decisions, occur in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"?

The narrator says he will die the following day

Which event happens first in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"?


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