NEW RESOURCE: This 12-page test bank for Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Masque of the Red Death" contains 55 multiple-choice literary analysis questions and an answer key. This test requires close reading, so passages are included and every question is labelled according to Common Core Standards. Questions involve such areas of literary analysis as . . . literary devices, figurative language, theme, characterization, plot, point of view, dramatic purpose, summarizing, logical inferences,