Worksheets"The Masque of the Red Death" Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
For each question in this quiz, use context clues to help determine the meaning of the red word. Some of these are words that you did not have in your list. However, context clues and knowledge of the story will help you choose the correct answer.
For this one, choose A. Yes, this actually counts as an answer! It's a freebie.
For this one, choose A. Yes, this actually counts as an answer! It's a freebie.
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
2.
"He had directed, in great part, the movable embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great fete."
a)
affair
b)
party
c)
speech
d)
day
3.
"There was a sharp cry- and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero."
a)
violent
b)
lying flat
c)
ill
d)
frightened
4.
"And then the music ceased, as I have told; and the evolutions of the waltzers were quieted; and there was an uneasy cessation of all things as before."
a)
silencing
b)
stirring
c)
stopping
d)
surging
5.
"The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat."
a)
grimace
b)
mouth
c)
eyes
d)
face
6.
"The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous."
a)
bugs
b)
contagious disease
c)
scavenger
d)
war
7.
"Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form."
a)
palpable
b)
visible
c)
secret
d)
quiet
8.
"...and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before."
a)
nervousness
b)
shaking
c)
celebrating
d)
screaming
9.
In reference tho the Prince's fete: " There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
a)
excited
b)
sullen
c)
quiet
d)
mischievous
10.
In reference to the masked visitor: "The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed."
a)
comedy
b)
satire
c)
proper behavior
d)
proper clothing
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