Haunted Houses Questions & Answers

Hi Everyone!! This article will share Haunted Houses Questions & Answers.

This poem is written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of Mr Tallent’s Ghost, The Diamond Maker, The Red-Headed League and The Choice so, you can check these posts as well.

Haunted Houses Questions & Answers

Question 1: Choose the correct option:

1. The house is haunted because

(a) it’s on a graveyard.
(b) it’s in a deserted place.
(c) the inmates have died.
(d) all of the above

2. The poem deals with

(a) the spirit world of ghosts and the world of the living.
(b) the poet and his dead ancestors.
(c) the ghosts that haunt empty houses.
(d) the ghosts who perpetually scare us.

3. The mood of the poem is

(a) contemplative.
(b) sarcastic.
(c) humorous.
(d) eerie.

Question 2: Where is the poem set? What are the phantoms doing?

Answer: The poem is set in a Haunted House. The Phantoms are gliding through open doors noiselessly. They are moving about the house doing their own errands.

Question 3: Where does the poet cross the ghosts? How does he perceive them?

Answer: The poet sees the spirits at the door, on the stairs and along the passages. He perceives them clearly as vague impressions of unearthly vapours in the air.

Question 4: There are more guests at table than the hosts.

(a) Who are the guests?

Answer: The spirits inhabiting the house are the uninvited guests.

(b) Who are the hosts?

Answer: The living owners of the house are called the hosts.

(c) What are they doing?

Answer: The hosts have thrown a party and are entertaining guests. They are unaware that many ghosts also attend their party, quietly and inoffensively in the great hall.

Question 5: The poet feels that the world we called the ‘real’ world is only part of all of reality. The world of the spirits is also real how does he convey this?

Answer: The poet believes that our life is balanced by the attraction of opposite forces. So, our world of life, light and the living attracts the world of the dead and the mysteries of the night. Spirits descend from this realm of darkness and enter our world. Our thoughts wander into the abyss created by these spirits. They are thus a part of all reality.

Question 6: The poem uses various poetic devices. They have been mentioned below. Match these poetic devices to their examples from the poem and explain them.

Answer:

1. Simile:

The spirit world around this world of sense
Floats like an atmosphere.

The world of spirits surrounds our sensual world like the atmosphere around the earth.

2. Metaphor:

From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands.

The hands are called dusty as they belong to men long buried and forgotten.

3. Visual imagery:

And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud
Throws o’er the sea a floating bridge of light.

The moon peeps out from behind dark clouds and throws light upon the sea. The moonbeam looks like a bridge of light floating above the water.

4. Symbolism:

This perpetual jar of earthly wants………

The body is symbolised as a jar containing eternal pain, worries and needs.

So, these were Haunted Houses Questions & Answers.