The Masque of the Red Death

What is unusual about where the masquerade takes place?

• There is a ballroom as large as the entire imperial suite

• Musicians play in a curved hall

• It begins at sundown and does not end until the ebony clock strikes

• There are colored rooms that are not connected to each other or situated along a straight hall

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Who does Prince Prospero invite to the "deep seclusion of his castellated abbey?"

• All of the country

• Those affected with the Red Death

• His friends, including knights and dames

• His family

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Why does the appearance of the masked figure fill the company with "terror, horror, and disgust?"

• People wonder how it got in the castle.

• They believe it resembles the Red Death.

• They are worried that it will ruin their masked ball.

• People are curious as to the identity of the figure.  

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¡What stands against the western wall of the last chamber? What might this foreshadow?

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Prince Prospero was everything except?

• happy

• dauntless

• concerned

• secluded

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When the disease hits, there is profuse bleeding and then the pores break down or separate. Poe uses which word to explain that.

• dauntless

• dominion

• dissolution

• disconcert

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When Prince Prospero confronts the strangely masked guest, the prince,

• challenges the guest to a duel and then draws his sword in order to fight

• demands that the masked guest leave since he or she was not invited

• draws a dagger, then chases the masked guest by going from room to room

• asks for the mask and costume so that he, the prince, can wear them

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Which of the following suggests that the revelers will not live long in “The Masque of the Red Death”?

• The white room

• The locked gates

• The red window panes

• The ebony clock

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Which was a symptoms of the red death?

• sharp pains

• bleeding from the pores

• dizziness 

• all of the above

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What can be inferred from the following quote? "...And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

• All those in the castle die, and the Red Death remains all powerful.  

• The company could not escape death and they died from the Red Death.

• Both 

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