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WorksheetsThe Masque of Red Death
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 17mins
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1.
What had long devastated the country?
a)
fever
b)
black death
c)
red death
d)
lice
2.
"The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous." Define "pestilence."
a)
bugs
b)
contagious disease
c)
famine
d)
war
3.
What was its "avatar and its seal"?
a)
pox
b)
blood
c)
fever
d)
nausea
4.
Poe's main aim is to create a growing sense of
a)
hope
b)
fear
c)
comfort
d)
anger
5.
How did Prospero decide to handle the red death
a)
by sealing himself and his friends in the castle
b)
by fleeing the country
c)
by purchasing vast quantities of medicine
d)
by funding research to cure it
6.
Which room is farthest east and associated with new beginnings?
a)
blue
b)
green
c)
black
d)
purple
7.
What is true about the seven rooms?
a)
all different colors
b)
very small
c)
smell like flowers
d)
all have hidden passageways
8.
What order does Prospero give?
a)
for the party to stop
b)
the new guest be seized and unmasked
c)
rooms to be locked
d)
for the new guest to be killed
9.
Who dies at the end of the story?
a)
Prospero only
b)
Prospero's guests only
c)
the red death masquerader
d)
Prospero and all of his guests
10.
What happens immediately when the ebony clock strikes midnight?
a)
A strange masked figure is seen by the whole company.
b)
Prince Prospero asks all of the guests to leave.
c)
The Red Death kills everyone in the castle.
d)
Prince Prospero commits suicide.
11.
Why does the appearance of the masked figure fill the company with "terror, horror, and disgust?"
a)
People wonder how it got in the castle.
b)
They believe it resembles a victim of the Red Death.
c)
They are worried that it will ruin their masked ball.
d)
People are curious as to the identity of the figure.
12.
When Prince Prospero confronts the strangely masked guest, the prince,
a)
challenges the guest to a duel and then draws his sword in order to fight
b)
demands that the masked guest leave since he or she was not invited
c)
draws a dagger, then chases the masked guest by going from room to room
d)
asks for the mask and costume so that he, the prince, can wear them
13.
Which of the following suggests that the revelers will not live long in “The Masque of the Red Death”?
a)
The white room
b)
The locked gates
c)
The red window panes
d)
The ebony clock
14.
What can be inferred from the following quote? "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
a)
All those in the castle die, and the Red Death remains all powerful.
b)
The company could not escape death and they died from the Red Death.
c)
Both
d)
Neither
15.
Which statement expresses the theme of this story?
a)
Money can buy you happiness
b)
No one can hide from or escape death
c)
Laugh and the world laughs with you
d)
Live life to the fullest
16.
Few people dare to enter the black apartment because
a)
everything looks frightening there, and an ebony clock makes a strange sound
b)
without light, no one can see or dance
c)
it is the room where Prince Prospero wears the masque of the Red Death
d)
in this room a strange voice can be heard whose origins no one can trace
17.
What happened each time the clock chimed?
a)
The party paused and everyone laughed nervously
b)
The gates to the castle would open and someone would be granted entrance
c)
Nothing: people ignored clock.
d)
The Red Death appeared and someone died.
18.
What happens when they unmask the person costumed as Red Death?
a)
He flees and everyone returns to the party.
b)
He attacks them and then flees the party.
c)
There's no one behind the mask, and they all die of the Red Death.
d)
He dies, and the party ends.
19.
From the description of the masquerade, the reader can conclude...
a)
the people in Prince Prospero's abbey had no idea what was going on outside the abbey.
b)
Prince Prospero and his guests were determined to enjoy their time in the abbey despite what was going on outside it.
c)
Prince Prospero was desperately concerned for those suffering from the "Red Death."
d)
Prince Prospero and his guests were safe from the "Red Death" inside the abbey.
20.
Read the following excerpt from the passage:
"before the last echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of a masked figure...And the rumor of this new presence having spread itself whisperingly around, there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murmur...then, finally, of terror, of horror, and of disgust."
What is the author's tone towards the masked figure?
"before the last echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of a masked figure...And the rumor of this new presence having spread itself whisperingly around, there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murmur...then, finally, of terror, of horror, and of disgust."
What is the author's tone towards the masked figure?
a)
favorable
b)
distaste, fearful
c)
delighted
d)
indifferent
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