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The Masque of the Red Death

1. What effect does the first paragraph have on the reader?

2. What is the reason for the group’s seclusion?

3. Describe in detail each of the seven rooms, focusing on color.

4. How does the arrangement of the rooms differ from that of most imperial suites?

5. What room differs from all the rest? How does it differ?

6. How are the rooms lighted?

7. What causes the musicians to periodically stop playing? Why are they afraid/

8. Why are color and music given so much emphasis in the story?

9. What happens at the stroke of midnight?

10. Describe the masked figure in detail.

11. How does Prince Prospero react to this imposter, and what does he promise to do to this specter of death?

12. What do the guests do at this point in the story?

13. What is the climax of the story?

14. How does the story end?