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- 1. Multiple Choice
According to the narrator…
He lives in darkness because he fears the light.
He is haunted in his dreams by the voices of his dead loved ones.
He has never seen another human, other than a nurse he barely recalls.
He lives in an ancient castle that is in remarkably sturdy condition.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is true about the castle?
The castle is situated in the middle of a desert.
The castle has mirrors on every wall in every room.
The castle is decorated with an abundance of black roses.
The castle has stone crypts that house skeletons.
- 3. Multiple Choice
How does the narrator get his education?
His aged nurse tutors him.
He watches people socialize from a window inside his castle.
He reads literature.
He walks the land around his castle nightly.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What drives the narrator to climb the castle tower that rises above the treetops?
A desire to listen to the howling wolves.
A desire to escape the “piled-up corpses of dead generations.”
A desire to behold light.
A desire to jump and end his misery.
- 5. Multiple Choice
As the narrator ascends the tower, he locates a trap door that…
Opens to a chamber with strange boxes.
Is chained shut and impossible to open.
Opens to an attic in which he finds photographs of himself.
Leads to the discovery of a mysterious beast.
- 6. Multiple Choice
When the narrator reaches an iron gate, he is surprised to…
...discover that he is at ground level -- not high above the treetops.
...discover that the key he wears around his neck unlocks it.
...see someone who looks identical to himself on the other side of it.
...feel such intense desire to flee and return to the comforts of his castle.
- 7. Multiple Choice
When the narrator arrives at the castle in the wooded park…
He falls into a trance-like state and collapses to the floor.
There is a festive party taking place.
He feels scared of what he will find living inside it.
There is a flash of lightning that strikes the tree beside him.
- 8. Multiple Choice
What causes the narrator to feel terror?
A sudden, explosive fire.
The hideous appearance of man.
A panicked stampede of people.
The blood-red eyes of a wolf staring him down.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What item helps the narrator discover his true identity?
A mirror.
A photo album.
An old letter.
A birth certificate.
- 10. Multiple Choice
In the resolution, readers learn that the narrator…
Is eventually accepted by humanity.
Avoids the dark out of fear that others like him will find him.
Locked himself away in his tomb for all eternity.
Now resides in Egypt.
- 11. Multiple Choice
At the story's resolution, what do we find out about the narrator? (RL.3)
He is a murderer
A vampire
A ghost or zombie (undead)
The last human on Earth
- 12. Multiple Choice
Based on the following description the narrator provides of himself on page 21, lines 1-9, what impression do you get about him? (RL.6)
"Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon his lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Such a lot the gods gave to me - to me, the dazed, the disappointed, the barren, the broken. And yet I am strangely content, and cling desperately to those memories, when my mind momentarily threatens to reach beyond to the other."
The narrator seems lonely and isolated.
The narrator seems depressed and angry.
The narrator seems content and fond of his childhood memories
The narrator seems pessimistic and cynical
- 13. Multiple Choice
The word choice "sightless crawling," "slimy," "eerie echoes," and "odious oblong boxes," are used to create a mood of ... (RL.4)
disgust & anger
sadness & despair
humorous & sarcastic
terror & suspense
- 14. Multiple Choice
easily approached or entered
prodigious
putrid
assailed
accessible
- 15. Multiple Choice
foul-smelling and rotten
prodigious
putrid
assailed
accessible
- 16. Multiple Choice
attacked
prodigious
putrid
assailed
accessible
- 17. Multiple Choice
great in size
prodigious
putrid
assailed
accessible
- 18. Multiple Choice
tower or spire
travesty
pinnacle
abomination
revelry
- 19. Multiple Choice
merrymaking; celebrating
travesty
pinnacle
abomination
revelry
- 20. Multiple Choice
bizarre imitation
travesty
pinnacle
abomination
revelry
- 21. Multiple Choice
a disgusting thing
travesty
pinnacle
abomination
revelry
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