CAT ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ What was the narrator's name? Answer: We are not told this
information.
◉ What is the first black cat's name? Answer: Pluto
◉ What is the allusion connected with the first black cat's name?
Answer: This was the Roman god of the underworld.
◉ What does the narrator first do to the black cat after he comes home
drunk one night? Answer: He cuts the cat's eye out after the cat bites
him.
◉ How does our narrator change from how he was when we was
younger? Answer: He begins to drink. He is mean to his wife and
animals.
◉ What are some hints that Poe's gives us that our narrator is in jail and
will be executed? Answer: He says he will die tomorrow in the first
paragraph. He says he is in a felon's cell. He says the cat sent him to the
hangman.
, ◉ What do Pluto and the new cat have in common? Answer: They are
black. They are missing an eye.
◉ How does the narrator kill Pluto? Answer: He hangs him from a tree
in the garden.
◉ What happens on the same night that the narrator kills Pluto? Answer:
His house burns.
◉ What does the new cat have on his chest? Answer: He has a white
splotch that is shaped like a hangman's noose.
◉ What does anomalous mean? Answer: abnormal
◉ What is a conflagration? Answer: a large fire
◉ What does felicity mean? Answer: happiness
◉ How does the narrator kill his wife? Answer: He drives an axe in her
head.
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ What was the narrator's name? Answer: We are not told this
information.
◉ What is the first black cat's name? Answer: Pluto
◉ What is the allusion connected with the first black cat's name?
Answer: This was the Roman god of the underworld.
◉ What does the narrator first do to the black cat after he comes home
drunk one night? Answer: He cuts the cat's eye out after the cat bites
him.
◉ How does our narrator change from how he was when we was
younger? Answer: He begins to drink. He is mean to his wife and
animals.
◉ What are some hints that Poe's gives us that our narrator is in jail and
will be executed? Answer: He says he will die tomorrow in the first
paragraph. He says he is in a felon's cell. He says the cat sent him to the
hangman.
, ◉ What do Pluto and the new cat have in common? Answer: They are
black. They are missing an eye.
◉ How does the narrator kill Pluto? Answer: He hangs him from a tree
in the garden.
◉ What happens on the same night that the narrator kills Pluto? Answer:
His house burns.
◉ What does the new cat have on his chest? Answer: He has a white
splotch that is shaped like a hangman's noose.
◉ What does anomalous mean? Answer: abnormal
◉ What is a conflagration? Answer: a large fire
◉ What does felicity mean? Answer: happiness
◉ How does the narrator kill his wife? Answer: He drives an axe in her
head.
