Quiz
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1. How many rooms does Prince Prospero’s palace contain?
(A) Five
(B) Three
(C) Ten
(D) Seven
2. With which river does the narrator of “Ligeia” associate his first wife?
(A) The Seine
(B) The Rhine
(C) The Mississippi
(D) The Po
3. Who is the author of “Mad Trist,” the romance that the narrator reads to Roderick Usher?
(A) Sir Launcelot Canning
(B) Geoffrey of Monmouth
(C) Geoffrey Chaucer
(D) The Venerable Bede
4. In “The Black Cat,” what is the name of the narrator’s first cat?
(A) Saturn
(B) Pluto
(C) Mercury
(D) Venus
5. Where does the narrator hide the old man’s dismembered body in “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
(A) Under the floorboards
(B) In the attic
(C) In a dumpster
(D) Under the bed
6. What nonhuman animal appears on Montresor’s coat of arms?
(A) A dog
(B) A rat
(C) A serpent
(D) A bear
7. In which country does William Wilson murder his double?
(A) Italy
(B) France
(C) Sweden
(D) England
8. In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” what piece of evidence indicates to Dupin that the owner of the Ourang-Outang is a sailor?
(A) Flippers
(B) Naval stationery
(C) A knotted ribbon
(D) An embroidered handkerchief
9. What geographical feature forms the front yard of the Usher mansion?
(A) A flower garden
(B) High grass
(C) A mud pit
(D) A tarn
10. As what does Fortunato dress for the carnival?
(A) A bullfighter
(B) A black-masked villain
(C) A court jester
(D) A French musketeer
11. What does William Wilson wear at the duke’s ball?
(A) A Spanish cloak
(B) A red mask
(C) A jester’s skirt
(D) A monk’s robes
12. At what time of night does the mysterious guest arrive in “The Masque of the Red Death”?
(A) Nine
(B) Ten
(C) Eleven
(D) Midnight
13. Which group of writers does the narrator of “MS. Found in a Bottle” originally dislike?
(A) French symbolists
(B) Italian romantics
(C) German moralists
(D) American realists
14. Who saves the narrator in “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
(A) General George Washington
(B) General Lasalle
(C) General Patton
(D) General Mills
15. In what city does Minister D—— from “The Purloined Letter” insult Dupin?
(A) Paris
(B) Vienna
(C) Hamburg
(D) Rome
16. Which of the following schools does William Wilson attend?
(A) Harvard
(B) Cambridge
(C) Eton
(D) Winchester
17. With what does Fortunato indicate to Montresor that he is a Mason?
(A) A hand signal
(B) A trowel
(C) A secret slogan
(D) A piece of paper
18. In which country does the narrator of “Ligeia” purchase an abbey?
(A) America
(B) Germany
(C) France
(D) England
19. In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” whom do the police originally arrest?
(A) The narrator
(B) Henri Cuvier
(C) Adolpe Le Bon
(D) Alexander von Humboldt
20. In “The Black Cat,” what shape does the second cat’s white fur form?
(A) A judge’s gavel
(B) The gallows
(C) The scales of justice
(D) An electric chair
21. In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” where does the narrator first meet Dupin?
(A) In a coffee shop
(B) At a party
(C) At a convention
(D) In a library
22. Which element of torture does the narrator encounter last in “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
(A) Hot walls
(B) A sharp pendulum
(C) Hungry rats
(D) A deep pit
23. On which night of his observation of the old man does the narrator from “The Tell-Tale Heart” commit murder?
(A) The first
(B) The eighth
(C) The seventh
(D) The third
24. The mysterious guest in “The Masque of the Red Death” comes dressed as what?
(A) A court jester
(B) A bullfighter
(C) A bloody corpse
(D) A French aristocrat
25. Along with the narrator, who survives the first hurricane in “MS. Found in a Bottle”?
(A) A young Frenchman
(B) An old Swede
(C) A bitter Italian
(D) A smart American