Q 01/05

In which French novel does the title character crash a masked ball dressed as the Red Death?

A) The Count of Monte Cristo

B) The Phantom of the Opera

C) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

D) The Three Musketeers

Answer · why

B) The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera sends Erik to the Paris masquerade as the Red Death, his cloak embroidered in gold with 'I am the Red Death that passes'. Lon...

Q 02/05

In The Masque of the Red Death, which color is the seventh and final room, the one guests avoid?

A) Violet

B) White

C) Black

D) Purple

Answer · why

C) Black

Black is the seventh room, draped from ceiling to carpet and lit so eerily that few guests dare set foot in it. It is also where the great clock stand...

Q 03/05

In The Masque of the Red Death, what do the revellers find beneath the intruder's mask and robes?

A) Only empty air

B) A bare skull

C) The prince's own face

D) A dying servant

Answer · why

A) Only empty air

Only empty air fills the costume: the grave-clothes and mask are 'untenanted by any tangible form'. At that moment the guests understand that the plag...

Q 04/05

Poe's Prince Prospero shares his name with the exiled sorcerer of which Shakespeare play?

A) Twelfth Night

B) The Winter's Tale

C) Measure for Measure

D) The Tempest

Answer · why

D) The Tempest

The Tempest centres on Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, who is put to sea by his brother and rules a remote island by sorcery. Poe twice calls hi...

Q 05/05

Which horror icon played Prince Prospero in the 1964 film of The Masque of the Red Death?

A) Vincent Price

B) Christopher Lee

C) Boris Karloff

D) Peter Cushing

Answer · why

A) Vincent Price

Vincent Price made the prince a devil-worshipping tyrant, a twist found nowhere in Poe's story. The film was shot in England, partly on sets left over...