THE BLACK CAT

Read THE BLACK CAT by Edgar Allan Poe and answer the questions:

1. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Rewrite the false ones with the correct information.

1. the narrator liked animals more than people.

2. Pluto the dog was the narrator’s favorite animal.

3. when Pluto bit the narrator, he cut one of its legs off.

4. the shape of a cat appeared on the bedroom wall.

5. the new cat looked the same as Pluto in every way.

6. the narrator killed his wife with an axe.

7. after he killed his wife, the narrator slept badly.

8. the police found the living woman and the dead cat.

9. the police found the living woman and the dead cat together behind the wall.

2. The police who found the black cat wrote a report about their visit to the house. Put these sentences in order, joining the parts where necessary, in order to make their report.

1. he knocked on one of the cellar walls with his stick, …

2. the owner took us down to the cellar.

3. and on top of her head there was a black cat with one eye.

4. so we got ready to leave.

5. On July 7^th we went to 51 Barker Street.

6. The cat was making the terrible sound that we had heard.

7. and suddenly we heard a sound from behind the wall.

8. Soon we found the dead body of a woman, …

9. After we had searched the rooms upstairs, …

10. We found nothing unusual there …

11. but then it became a loud and terrible scream.

12. Then the owner began to tell us how well built the house was.

13. We began to pull the wall down,

14. At first it was a soft cry, …