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“The Masque of the Red Death” – Edgar Allan Poe

As We Read Questions

1. What is the “Red Death”?

2. Who is the main character? Describe him.

3. What does he decide to do for protection?

4. Who is invited to join him?

5. What was it like inside the castle?

6. What does Prince Prospero decide to do to entertain his guests after five or six months?

7. How many rooms are there in his house? What direction do they go in? How is each room unique?

8. What is the 7th room like? How do the guests feel about this room?

9. What can be found in the 7th room? How doe the guests react when this “goes off”?

10. How are the guests dressed?

11. What happens at midnight?

12. How do the people react to this?

13. What does he look like?

14. How does the prince react to this person?

15. When the prince gives his command, how do the people react?

16. What does the prince try to do?

17. What happens to Prospero?

18. What do the people discover when they attack the masked figure?

19. Who does the narrator believe the figure was?

20. What happens to the party-goers?

21. At the end, what happens to the clock and the candles?

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