The Man Behind the "Masque"
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"The Melancholy House of Usher"
"Quoth the Raven
Who Are You?
100
The occupation of Poe's birth mother.
What is actress?
100
Poe's wife was doing this when she first coughed up blood.
What is singing?
100
The emotion the Visitor feels when he first sees the House of Usher.
What is "insufferable gloom"?
100
Person for whom the Narrator is grieving.
Who is Lenore?
100
Twin of Roderick.
Who is Madeline?
200
The disease that took the life of many women in Poe's life.
What is Tuberculosis?
200
The name of Poe's foster father.
What is John Allan?
200
The trouble Usher described in his letter to the Visitor.
What is "acute bodily illness and depression"?
200
The Narrator first thinks this is making the rapping at the door.
What is a visitor?
200
He claims the Visitor is his best friend.
Who is Usher?
300
Poe's wife.
Who is Virginia Clemm?
300
Poe's biological father was guilty of these two things.
What is drinking and abandonment?
300
The change that Madeline's illness takes the night the Visitor arrives.
What is her illness "prostrates her"?
300
Bust on which the Raven sat.
What is Pallas Athena?
300
Lover of the Narrator.
Who is Lenore?
400
The place Poe was found just before he died.
What is a Baltimore Street?
400
This is the number of siblings Poe had.
What is 2?
400
What Usher had in mind when he painted the picture described by the Visitor.
What is a tomb (or coffin)?
400
How the Narrator feels when the Raven first sits on the bust.
What is amused?
400
Mistaken for the wind.
What is the Raven?
500
Edgar Allan Poe's last words.
What is "God help my poor soul"?
500
Poe's biological mother's name.
What is Elizabeth (or Eliza)?
500
The time of year in which this work takes place.
What is Autumn (Fall)?
500
Month in which this work takes place.
What is December?
500
Madeline is dying to find him.
Who is Usher?
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