The Black Cat
What is the name of the first black cat?
Pluto
What is the Red Death?
A plague
What disability does Hop-Frog have?
Deformity and difficulty walking
What is the narrator’s vice at the beginning of the story?
Alcoholism
Why does Prince Prospero invite people to his abbey?
To protect them from the Red Death
What is Hop-Frog’s role in the king’s court?
Jester
Why does the narrator gouge out Pluto’s eye?
He was drunk and angry.
What does the Red Death symbolize?
Inevitability of death
What symbolic meaning could the fire have?
Revenge and purification
What happens to Pluto after the narrator hangs him?
The house burns down.
What is unusual about the seventh room?
It has a clock that chimes eerily.
What is the significance of the chains used in the disguise?
They symbolize Hop-Frog’s imprisonment.
hat shape does the white mark on the second cat resemble?
A noose
How many rooms are in the abbey’s suite?
Seven
What literary device is most prominent in “Hop-Frog”?
Irony