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

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

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.  

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

Prince Prospero was everything except?

• happy

• dauntless

• concerned

• secluded

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

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

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

Which was a symptoms of the red death?

• sharp pains

• bleeding from the pores

• dizziness 

• all of the above

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