Romanticism

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Romanticism

• Review Game

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• What was the ironic name of the
• character in The Cask of Amontillado who
• lost his life?
• Fortunato
• Montressor
• Prince Prospero
• Pluto

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• In The Tell-Tale Heart, what brought the
• police to the old mans door in the middle
• of the night?
• A neighbor had heard a scream
• Routine check
• The man had called them
• The police did not come to the old mans door

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• In The Masque of the Red Death, what
• did the grandfather clock symbolize?
• The Red Death
• Prince Prospero
• Death
• Life

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• In which story is the narrator tormented by
• insanity?
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Masque of the Red Death
• All of the above

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• In The Black Cat, what caused the cat to
• cry out from behind the wall?
• The cat hears the police
• The man taps on the wall
• The cat is hungry
• The cat does not cry out from behind the wall

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• Several of the stories included an aspect
• of being buried alive. Which story did not
• include any mention of being buried alive?
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Premature Burial
• The Cask of Amontillado
• None of the above

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• In the Tell-Tale Heart, what compelled the
• narrator to tell the police what he had done to
• the old man?
• He heard the old mans heart beating
• The cat shrieked and drew attention to the body
• He did not tell the police
• The old man called out from beneath the floor

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• In The Cask of Amontillado, which was an
• example of foreshadowing?
• Montressor agreeing that Fortunato would not die
  of a cough
• Montressor claiming to be a mason
• Montressors coat of arms having a snake on it
• both a and b
• both a and c

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• In The Black Cat, what are black cats
• associated with?
• bad luck
• witches
• death
• goblins

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• In The Cask of the Amontillado, why did
• Montressor have such a grudge against
• Fortunato?
• He was in love with Fortunatos wife
• He was jealous of Fortunatos wine collection
• Fortunato had insulted him
• All of the above

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• In The Raven, what is narrator doing at
• the beginning of the poem?
• napping and reading
• reading and crying over Lenore
• napping and crying over Lenore
• he is doing nothing at the beginning of the poem

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• In The Black Cat, what did the narrator do
• to his favorite pet, Pluto?
• He gouged his eye out
• Began to despise him
• Hung him
• All of the above

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• In The Tell-Tale Heart, what stops the
• narrator from killing the old man the first
• several nights?
• the old man does not sleep
• the narrator can not see the eye
• the old man leaves the light on
• the neighbors watch out for the old man

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• Which two stories end with the narrator being
• discovered by the police as a murderer?
• The Masque of the Red Death and The Cask of
  Amontillado
• The Cask of Amontillado and The Black Cat
• The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Tell-Tale Heart and The Masque of the Red
  Death

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• What drove the narrator in The Tell-Tale
• Heart to his awful deed of murder?
• The beating of the old mans heart
• The old mans smell
• The old mans cruelty
• The old mans vulture eye

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• In The Raven, from where does the
• narrator originally think the bird learned
• the word nevermore?
• from a past owner
• from another bird
• from Pluto
• none of the above

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• What is the theme of The Masque of the
• Red Death?
• Death comes for everyone
• Death will only come at the appropriate time
• Death is something that can be avoided
• Death is gruesome

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• In which Poe reading does a death not
• occur within the story?
• The Raven
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Black Cat

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• What is ironic about the fact that Prince
• Prospero locked the door to keep death
• out?
• it was there all the time
• it slipped in through the cracks
• it didnt need to get in
• none of the above

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• Several of the stories we read made
• reference to Pluto. Who was Pluto?
• god of the underworld /afterlife
• the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart
• the snake in The Cask of Amontillado
• reference to the planet

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• How did Montressor trick Fortunato to go with
• him to the wine vaults in The Cask of the
• Amontillado?
• Told him he had amontillado
• Told him there was a party down there
• Told him the Lady Fortunato was there
• Fortunato did not go into the vaults

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• In what way is the black room different
• from the other rooms in The Masque of
• the Red Death?
• The window was not the same color
• It had a clock in it
• It was lit by candles
• All of the above

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• In The Raven, for whom does the narrator
• mourn?
• Eleanor Rigby
• Lenore
• Lucinda
• Lucy

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• What was the shape on second cats
• white fur in The Black Cat?
• The Devil
• The gallows
• A Witchs hat
• The mans wife

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• What disease afflicted the narrator in The
• Black Cat?
• Alcoholism
• Diabetes
• Red Death
• Tuberculosis