A.

The Masque of the Red Death:

**Match the objects that are used in The Masque of the Red Death to their allegorical meaning:
52.

7 rooms

A. the last stage of life/death

53.

Prince Prospero

B. stages of life

54.

the 7th room

C. disease and inevitably death

55.

the uninvited guest

56.

In this story, the Prince Prospero is determined to

a.
Outsmart death
b.
Protect 1000 of his friends
c.
Show his superiority to the rest of the world
d.
All of the above

57.

The Red Death was marked by

a.
A long painful illness
b.
A high fever
c.
Profuse bleeding and rapid death
d.
Pox-like marks on the survivors

58.

Why does Poe call the party-goers dreams as they float from room to room?
a.
They are ghosts/spirits
b.
They are escaping reality
c.
They will all soon be dead
d.
None of the above

59.

The destruction of the party-goers by the Red Death may be said to symbolize the
a.
Certainty of death
b.
The power of the plague
c.
The ignorance of the people
d.
All of the above

60.

It is ironic that in spite of all his efforts

a.
An infected person came with them to the abbey
b.
The prince ended up like most other people in his kingdom
c.
The Red Death cam anyway like a thief in the night
d.
All of the above

B.

Application of Literary Termsunderline and label the example/s of literary terms in the following excerpts read
for class (there is one term used per example and some may be used more than once and some not at all:

foreshadowing

D. no one can escape death despite wealth

folktale

allegory

satire

onamotopeia

symbol
61.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I ponder, weak and weary, over a many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
while I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber
door.
-The Raven

62.

Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant, but lost all his by a frantic speculation, and was
now little better than a mendicant.
-Dr. Heideggers Experiment