mask of red death

The Masque of the Red Death Quiz

1. The events of this story are related to...

A. a popular ballroom dance

B. a spreading, infectious disease 

C. a nickname for Prince Prospero

D. costumes for masquerade balls

2. What is unusual about where the masquerade takes place?

A. There is a ballroom as large as the entire imperial suite in Prince

Prospero’s palace.

B. Musicians play in a curved hall while quests dance in colored

chambers.

C. It begins at sundown and does not end until an ebony clock strikes.

D. There are colored rooms that are not connected to each other or

situated along a straight hall.

3. “Gaudy and fantastic appearances” are created at the masquerade

ball by...

A. the prince who wears a frightening costume and dances in several

rooms

B. a man in a red mask who enters the various rooms and does a bizarre 

dance

C. flames that shine through red glass windows in each of many rooms

along a hallway

D. the guests who take turns putting on a red mask, which makes them

act in strange ways.

4. Few people dare to enter the black apartment because...

A. faces look frightening there, and an ebony clock makes a strange

sound.

B. without light, no one can see or dance without causing injury to

others.

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.

5. Prince Prospero is a person who basically desires...

A. good company and entertainment

B. to face pain and suffering with courage

C. to be surrounded by people in simple clothes

D. others to share their feelings with him

6. 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 can wear them

7. An allegory is a narrative story...

A. with an unexpected turning point and climax in its plot

B. told by a narrator who knows more about events than other

characters

C. that uses imaginary characters to tell about a historical event

D. in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral 

qualities

8. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” the red mask probably stands

for...

A. the bubonic plague that had been killing much of the population of 

14th century Europe

B. the desire that all people had to become a prince or princess

C. Prince Prospero’s wish to be anything but ordinary

D. the people in 14th century Europe who survived the bubonic plague

9. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” Prince Prospero stands for...

A. a terrible, deadly disease that had been spreading through Europe

B. a future people who learned how to fight infectious diseases

successfully

C. anyone who believed they could fool death by their cleverness

D. weak people who were easily infected by and died from bubonic

plague

10. Which statement expresses the theme of this allegory?

A. Money can buy you happiness.

B. Laugh and the world laughs with you.

C. Live life to the fullest.

D. Death can master life.

Masque of the Red Death Paragraph Activity

Chose to write from the perspective of one of the following

characters. Then, answer these questions in a paragraph form from

the point of view of that character:

~Prince Prospero ~The Partyers

~The peasants that are locked out

 ~The Red Death

brown

brown

1.How does the setting add to the meaning of the story: sunset and night, dreary road, gloomiest trees, narrow path creeping through, lonely, peculiarity in solitude? How does this imagery create the mood? How does this mood help us predict the nature of Young Goodman Brown’s journey?

It starts off the story to be very dark and scary. Almost foreshadowing what is to come.

2.Discuss the significance of "Faith kept me back awhile."

This has a double meaning, faith meaning his wife didnt want him to leave, and also meaning that his faith was keeping him from going as well.

3.Why do you think Faith wore pink ribbons? Hint: think of the connotation of colors.

Because pink is very innocent. 

4.Discuss the significance of the second traveller (sic.), ". . . apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features. Still they might have been taken for father and son." Is he Brown’s alter ego?

I think the second traveller is the devil trying to project into an image that Brown would trust, god created man in his own image

5.Interpret the description of the staff "which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle like a living serpent. This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light." Why the uncertainty?

The staff means the devil from the story of adam and eve.

6. When the fellow traveller states, "I have been well acquainted with your family... I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem. ... The deacons of many a church have drunk wine with me; the select men of divers town make me their chairman; and a majority of the Great and General Court are firm believers of my interest," what do we begin to understand about him? Though this character, what is Hawthorne telling us about evil?

This shows Brown that his family isn't as innocent and pure as he thought. people are all evil

7. Discuss the meaning(s): "My Faith is gone!”

Meaning he lost hope and his wife. 

8.Describe what Goodman Brown saw when he arrived at the meeting – the grave, reputable, and pious people, the chaste dames and dewy virgins, the revered pastor, and that the good "shrank not from the wicked." Discuss the meaning.

He saw many people he once trusted from town, and revealed them to be evil and all part of a coven.

9.The dark figure states, "Welcome, my children, to the communion of your race. Ye have found thus young your nature and your destiny." What do you think this means?

That they are all witches and they have all found each other, all going to be evil 

10.  How does Goodman Brown treat people the next day? What happens to him? Why?

He is hesitant, and nervous. Brown has lost all hope.

11."Young Goodman Brown" is a moral allegory. Essentially, an allegory is an extended metaphor using one thing to represent another – a story with dual meanings. Therefore, there is a surface or literal meaning as well as a secondary meaning. In other words, Hawthorne uses this moral allegory to reveal a moral lesson or lessons. Discuss the moral lesson(s) you discover in the story.

That not everybody is what they seem. And that you can find this out in harsh and cruel ways, just like on real life.

Questions on Robert Frost Poetry

“The Road Not Taken”
1.  Where does the poem take place? the woods 
2.  What decision does the speaker of the poem face? which path to take
3.  What road does the speaker take?  Cite the line.  
I took the one less traveled by, - 19 
4.  How does the speaker feel about his/her choice? sad that he couldn't take both
5.  Is one path better than another? one thats usually more traveled is more trusted 

“Fire and Ice”
6.  What way does the speaker of the poem choose to perish?  Cite the line. he chooses fire, From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire. 
7.  What might the speaker mean when he/she says that the world will end in fire or ice? that everything will either end in hatred or desire
8.  What emotions are associated with fire and ice in the poem? hatred is ice and desire is fire 
9.  Above the literal level, what might the speaker of the poem be pondering? pondering his death 

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
10.  What is the setting of this poem? a snowy woods
11.  Why does the speaker of the poem stop? stops to watch the woods fill with snow
12.  Why does Frost repeat the last line? to show that he has a long way away from home

“On Looking Up By Chance at the Constellations”
13.  What objects does the speaker examine in the poem? the stars , constellations. Just looking up at the stars 
14.  How does the speaker feel about the planets and stars in relation to his/her own life?  planets and stars have paths that cross in which they come so close they look like they might hit yet they don't, no harm comes to them. it dosent make sense to stay up all night to see if harm will ever come 

“Flower-Gathering”
15.  What is the “gloaming” referenced in the fifth line? he had to leave his love in the morning
16.  How does the person react to the speaker?  Why? she questions his sincerity in their relationship. 
17.  What does Frost tend to focus on in many of his poems?long distance relationship, or distances to go to get home 

“October”
18.  What descriptions does the speaker use to explain October? the leafs have changed and a wind at any moment can take them from us
19.   Besides the month, what else could this poem be discussing? that winter is coming , asking for longer days for their life to be longer 
20.   Apostrophe in literature means “the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.”  What apostrophe occurs in this poem? tomorrows wind , can mean change of season he is talking to the month of october.