The Black Cat and Other Stories(3 of 4)

Reading Comprehension Test--The Black Cat and Other Stories (2/3)

Penguin Readers

The Oval Portrait

(1) At the beginning of the story, the men in “The Oval Portrait” had just ___.

　　 (A) arrived at an abandoned old house
　　 (B) arrived at their old house in the country
　　 (C) arrived at a house they had just bought
　　 (D) arrived at a friend’s old house in the woods

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(2) As the man was lying in bed, he read a book ___.

　　 (A) that had many paintings of the house
　　 (B) that described how to make pictures
　　 (C) of the history of famous pictures
　　 (D) about the paintings in the room

(2)

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(3) When the injured man saw a portrait of a woman, he was stunned because ___.

　　 (A) the painting that the painter did was such good work
　　 (B) he couldn’t believe it was only paint and not real or alive
　　 (C) the woman was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen
　　 (D) he couldn’t understand how the painter painted it so well

(3)

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(4) The woman in the portrait was married to a painter, but ___.

　　 (A) the painter was already married to another wife
　　 (B) the painter never loved the woman
　　 (C) the painter was too busy with his painting
　　 (D) the painter spent too much time with her

(4)

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(5) While the painter was painting his wife’s portrait, ___.

　　 (A) her health declined because of the many hours of posing
　　 (B) he became tired of seeing his wife day after day
　　 (C) she could only think about how much she enjoyed his work
　　 (D) she changed into a more beautiful woman, but she was tired

(5)

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(6) The idea expressed by the writer in “The Oval Portrait” is ___.

　　 (A) the man loved his wife so much that he painted the most beautiful portrait of her
　　 (B) the man’s work was so good that it killed his wife when she looked at it
　　 (C) the wife of the painter loved her husband so much that she died so he could be famous
　　 (D) the man’s love for his painting took the life from his wife and put it onto the canvas

(6)

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(7) The lesson learned from “The Oval Portrait” is ___.

　　 (A) we should love our family and not love our work
　　 (B) our family is important, but our work is what helps us live
　　 (C) the love of our work should not override the love for our family
　　 (D) it is important to notice if our wives are becoming sick

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Berenice

(8) Egaeus’ family is ___.

　　 (A) made up of fine workmen
　　 (B) wealthy and has a long history
　　 (C) very interested in libraries
　　 (D) large and very rich

(8)

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(9) Egaeus is probably fond of libraries because ___.

　　 (A) he was born in a library
　　 (B) he mother died in a library
　　 (C) the books heard his first cries
　　 (D) he likes to read books

(9)

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(10) Egaeus didn’t realize that he was growing up because ___.

　　 (A) he lost books in the library so often
　　 (B) his parents always made him read books
　　 (C) he was still living in his father’s house
　　 (D) he was lost in the dream world of books

(10)

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(11) While Egaeus was thinking about how his life was going so fast, ___.

　　 (A) his cousin thought about life in the present
　　 (B) his cousin thought about how to get stronger
　　 (C) his cousin thought about the sunshine
　　 (D) his cousin thought about how she could help him

(11)

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(12) When the writer says that Berenice “had a dark cloud pass over her,” he was referring to ___.

　　 (A) the way Bernice changed her way of thinking
　　 (B) the rain storm that made her sick
　　 (C) the way her life changed after getting sick
　　 (D) the time she was caught out in bad weather

(12)

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(13) Egaeus’ sickness caused him to ___.

　　 (A) become afraid of getting lost in places he knew well
　　 (B) think about things for many hours without realizing it
　　 (C) start to get lost in his house because he couldn’t think
　　 (D) worry about useless things that don’t affect his life

(13)

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(14) Egaeus’s condition was different from a sleeping dream in that ___.

　　 (A) he never remembered the original object that started his dreaming
　　 (B) he always remembered about the object that started his dreaming
　　 (C) he always used his mind to create and build the dream
　　 (D) he could only dream about things that were important to him

(14)

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(15) Egaeus didn’t love Berenice because ___.

　　 (A) he didn’t have those kinds of feelings
　　 (B) he didn’t really have a big heart
　　 (C) he couldn’t keep her out of his mind
　　 (D) he couldn’t express his feeling in his heart

(15)

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(16) After Berenice became sick, Egaeus began to feel differently about her because ___.

　　 (A) he could see that a very good person was going to waste
　　 (B) he didn’t want to waste anymore time with such a good person
　　 (C) he saw that she loved him very much
　　 (D) he saw that she was such a sweet and loving person

(16)

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(17) One day close to their wedding day Berenice’s teeth ___.

　　 (A) became something Egaeu dreamed about while sleeping
　　 (B) became another sign of her unhealthy life
　　 (C) became one of the objects for Egaeu’s monomania
　　 (D) became whiter and more beautiful than any other teeth

(17)

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(18) After Berenice’s death, ___.

　　 (A) Egaeu could only remember half of the story of what had happened
　　 (B) Egaeu awoke in the library and never got to see Bernice before she was buried
　　 (C) Egaeu left the library to say his last farewell to Bernice’s
　　 (D) Egaeu woke up in the library and couldn’t remember what had happened

(18)

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(19) After Egaeu heard a scream while in the library, ___.

　　 (A) he knew that his cousin was still living
　　 (B) he knew that he had done something bad
　　 (C) he knew he had killed Berenice in the night
　　 (D) he knew that the servant was afraid of him

(19)

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(20) Egaeu knew that he had done the act that the servant told him about because ___.

　　 (A) he saw blood on the servant
　　 (B) he open the box on his desk
　　 (C) he remembered doing it
　　 (D) he had monomania

(20)

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(21) What is the sentence that best explains “Berenice?”

　　 (A) A sick woman is eventually killed by her crazy cousin.
　　 (B) A servant of a rich man mistakenly tells him his cousin is dead.
　　 (C) A rich family is affected by a disease called epilepsy.
　　 (D) A man’s mental illness makes him unknowingly hurt his sick cousin.

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