The oval portrait

The house was...

• sad and strangely beautiful, many hundreds of years old.

• beautiful and new.

• richly decorated.

The narrator and Pedro, his servant, broke into the house...

• because they were burglars.

• because they lost their keys.

• because the narrator was badly hurt.

The narrator could see...

• broken glass on the floor.

• beautiful and expensive furniture around him.

• that the room was full of paintings.

• a lot of fine modern pictures in the room.

The portrait was...

• the most wonderful painting.

• oval in shape.

• the finest and most beautiful painting the narrator has ever seen.

• richly decorated.

When the narrator saw the portrait he...

• was afraid.

• was excited.

• was happy.

In the room, The narrator found...

• a key

• a book.

• a woman.

• a cat.

The portrait story was about...

• a cat who was killed by his owner.

• a woman who fell in love with a painter.

• a man who couldn't stop thinking about her cousin's teeth.

• a prince who locked his friends in a castle.

The woman hated her husband's work...

• because it was the only thing that kept him away from her.

• because the paintings were horrible.

• because she was jealous of it.

The woman sat to be painted ...

• because she wanted to be famous.

• because she wanted to be painted by her husband.

• because she loved her husband.

When the painter finished the portrait...

• he discovered the woman was not made of paint.

• he destroyed the portrait.

• he turned and looked at his wife, she was dead.