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Edgar Allan Poe Test Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 3600secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why does Prince Prospero keep everyone locked up?

a)

To sequester against the native invasion

b)

To quarantine against disease

c)

To fortify against the Anglo-Saxons

d)

To detain political defectors

2.

What is the purpose of the party?

a)

A distraction from disease around them

b)

A celebration of conquest

c)

A memorial for a dead statesman

d)

A ritual for pagan religion

3.

Why can't the prince stop the masked figure?

a)

He's covered in butter

b)

He is a wraith from Middle Earth

c)

He is hatred embodied

d)

He is the Red Death personified

4.

What is the Red Death?

a)

A wave of Communism

b)

A professional lacrosse team

c)

A ferocious army

d)

A deadly disease

5.

Which of the rooms doesn't match to colors of the decorations?

a)

The blue room

b)

The green room

c)

The red room

d)

The black room

6.

What do the guests do every hour when the clock chimes?

a)

They joyfully toast to their health.

b)

They pause and look around.

c)

They cheerfully sing a song.

d)

They hatefully curse their enemies.

7.

Who arrives at the party when the clock strikes midnight?

a)

A masked intruder

b)

A vigilante assassin

c)

A mysterious woman

d)

A magnificent queen

8.

What does the prince have when he approaches the stranger?

a)

A gun

b)

A sword

c)

A dagger

d)

A drink

9.

Who is the masked intruder?

a)

The Black Panther

b)

The Red Death

c)

The Green Arrow

d)

The Scarlet Spider

10.

How many rooms in the abbey are decorated by color?

a)

4

b)

7

c)

5

d)

8

11.

Who wrote The Masque of the Red Death?

a)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Mark Twain

d)

Edgar Allan Poe

12.
 Why did the narrator say he killed the old man?
a)
Because the old man wronged him
b)
For his gold
c)
Because of his pale blue eye
d)
Because someone hired him to
13.
How does the narrator kill the old man?
a)
With a pillow
b)
By smothering him with the heavy mattress
c)
By shooting him
d)
By strangling him with his hands
14.
When the police knock on the door, the narrator opens the door with a light heart.  Why?
a)
He is having a great hair day
b)
He just won the lottery
c)
He just woke up from a great nap
d)
He thinks he has cleaned up all of the evidence of the murder
15.
Which of the following is NOT true about the narrator?
a)
He is compassionate.
b)
He is insane.
c)
He is nervous.
d)
He has a mental disorder.
16.
The narrator says that one of his senses became very acute. Which sense was it?
a)
seeing
b)
hearing
c)
taste
d)
smell
17.
When he is speaking to the police, what does the young man think he hears?
a)
a heart beating
b)
the roar of the ocean
c)
the sounds of the neighbors
d)
the old man yelling
18.
On what character traits does the narrator pride himself?
a)
ability to lie and steal
b)
sneakiness and fear
c)
friendliness and caring
d)
intelligence and patience
19.
For seven nights, the narrator sneaks into the Old Man's room to observe him. Why can he not commit the murder?
a)
The Old Man is staring at him with the creepy eye.
b)
The Old Man is waiting with a gun.
c)
The Old Man's eyes are closed.
d)
The old man is not in the room
20.
Where does the narrator hide the Old Man's corpse?
a)
In the wall..
b)
In the closet..
c)
Under the floorboards...
d)
In a mass grave in the backyard..
21.

disturbed, angry

a)

gesticulations

b)

vexed

c)

sagacity

d)

devastated

22.

intelligence and good judgement

a)

dauntless

b)

audacity

c)

contagion

d)

sagacity

23.

cautious, careful

a)

wary

b)

grotesque

c)

masquerade

d)

devasated

24.

boldness, willingness to take risks

a)

wary

b)

audacity

c)

contagion

d)

sagacity

25.

energetic hand and arm gestures

a)

gesticulations

b)

wary

c)

contagion

d)

dauntless

26.

destroy or ruin

a)

devastated

b)

vexed

c)

sagacity

d)

dauntless

27.

showing fearlessness, bravery

a)

wary

b)

dauntless

c)

vexed

d)

masquerade

28.

a disease spread by close contact with another person

a)

devastated

b)

audacity

c)

wary

d)

contagion

29.

ugly or distorted

a)

grotesque

b)

gesticulations

c)

vexed

d)

audacity

30.

a ball or party where guests where masks to hide their faces

a)

wary

b)

vexed

c)

masquerade

d)

dauntless

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