The day after the narrator killed the cat by hanging it from one of the beams of their cellar, their house burned to the ground. They were sleeping when their neighbors’ cries woke them up only to find out that their house is on fire.
The correct answer is D) The house burns to the ground the day after the narrator kills the first cat.
The event from "The Black Cat" that seems to prove the wife´s superstition about cats to be correct is "The house burns to the ground the day after the narrator kills the first cat."
Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story "The Black Cat" in 1843. It was published in the "Saturday Evening Post." It's the story of a man that conceals his crime but ends up confessing his atrocity. Poe brilliantly studies the character and the psychology of guilt around him.
The other options of the question are A) the wife stops the narrator from killing the second cat in the cellar, B) the narrator hides the body of his wife within the wall of his cellar, and C) the narrator hangs the first black cat from a tree in his yard.
