(1) The story of “The Black Cat” is told by ___.
(A) the wife of the main character
(B) the writer
(C) the black cat
(D) the main character
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(2) The man in the story was happy when ___.
(A) he found a wife to marry him
(B) his wife started to like animals
(C) he realized his wife loved animals
(D) his animals started loving his wife
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(3) Because the man’s cat was black, ___.
(A) some people thought it was evil
(B) the wife thought it was an evil enemy
(C) the cat was often laughed at by people
(D) the wife thought it was very intelligent
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(4) Pluto was the man’s favorite animal, so ___.
(A) the man was the one who always fed it
(B) the man had to stop Pluto from following
(C) Pluto always followed him
(D) Pluto always gave the man food
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(5) The man began to change ___.
(A) because he could not drink
(B) because he drank too much
(C) because he became more and more selfish
(D) because he got angry easily
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(6) When the man’s illness became worse, ___.
(A) Pluto began to bit people
(B) the animals began to do horrible things
(C) the animals tried to help him
(D) Pluto began to be afraid of him
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(7) One night when the man came home late ___.
(A) he bit Pluto on the hand
(B) he was scared of Pluto
(C) he was bitten by Pluto
(D) he was not pleased to see Pluto
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(8) The man cut out one of the cat’s eyes because ___.
(A) he had always disliked the cat
(B) the cat had always disliked him
(C) he was afraid of the cat
(D) his drinking made him crazy
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(9) After the man cut the cat’s eyes out, ___.
(A) the man made an ugly dry hole
(B) the cat would never leave him again
(C) the cat felt sorry for what had happened
(D) the man felt bad about what he did
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(10) The effect of the cat not loving the man anymore was ___.
(A) the man started drinking more and more
(B) the man started to get angry at the cat
(C) the man became deeply sorry
(D) the man went around the house as usual
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(11) The night that the man killed the cat ___.
(A) a crowd of people watched the man do it
(B) he thought the cat was evil
(C) there was a fire in his house
(D) the cat tried to bite him on the hand
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(12) When the man saw the cat-like shape on the wall, he explained it to
himself by saying___.
(A) the people in the garden threw the dead cat at the house
(B) the cat jumped into the house during the fire and made the mark
(C) the house fell on top of the cat and made the mark
(D) the cat tried to wake the man up but was caught in the house
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(13) The man soon wanted to have another cat like Pluto because, ___.
(A) he felt sad about the loss of the cat
(B) he wanted to hang another cat
(C) he began to look for another one
(D) he saw it near some bottles of wine
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(14) The new cat the man found looked just like Pluto, except ___.
(A) the new cat had a white patch of fur on its back
(B) the new cat was not totally black like Pluto
(C) the new cat was a little larger than Pluto was
(D) the new cat had a bad attitude towards the man
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(15) Even though the man started hating the new cat, ___.
(A) he noticed the cat didn’t have any eyes
(B) he really wanted the cat to murder him
(C) the cat wanted to murder the man
(D) the cat always wanted to be with him
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(16) The man became scared of the cat ___.
(A) because he thought it was evil
(B) because he became crazy
(C) because the cat was acting evil
(D) because it followed him home
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(17) The white shape on the cat’s chest started to change into ___.
(A) a shape that looked like Pluto
(B) the shape of a flag
(C) a symbol of the Pluto’s death
(D) a symbol of the man’s anger
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(18) The man was not happy because ___.
(A) the cat had a heavy body
(B) the cat never left his side
(C) the cat had bad dreams
(D) the cat didn’t let him sleep at all
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(19) After the man was stopped from killing the cat by his wife, ___.
(A) he brought the axe into the cellar
(B) he set the axe on her head
(C) he gave the tool to his wife
(D) he hit her with the axe
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(20) Since the man’s wife was dead, ___.
(A) he cut the body into pieces and burned it
(B) he took the body out of the house in a box
(C) he hid the body inside the house
(D) he threw it in the river behind the house
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(21) When the police were searching the man’s house for the body, ___.
(A) they asked the man to leave the house
(B) they checked the whole house many times
(C) the man was a little nervous about the search
(D) the man tried to help them as much as possible
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(22) At the time the police found the man’s wife, ___.
(A) the cat was hiding with her body
(B) the cat was making the wife scream
(C) the wife was still barely alive
(D) the wife was trying to scream loudly
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(23) The lesson of “The Black Cat” is ___.
(A) all cats have more than one life
(B) hurting animals is bad
(C) bad deeds come back to haunt you.
(D) drinking alcohol can cause violence
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