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What is the significance of the seven rooms in the palace?

a. They represent the cycle of life.
b. They represent stories in the Bible.
c. The represent the days of the week.
d. They represent the stages of the plague.

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They represent the cycle of life.
These seven rooms represent human life and death, it is the seven ages of man.

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Answer:

a. They represent the cycle of life.

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Masque of the Red Death" is a story by Edgar Allan Poe. This plot revolves around a fictional plague that is sweeping through the land. The main character, Prince Prospero, and some nobles are seen hiding from the plague in an abbey. In the abbey, there are seven rooms, color coded and arranged from east to west. The seventh is a creepy black and scarlet decorated room, which everyone avoids until the end of the story.The rooms of this abbey are symbolic of the cycles of life, blue (birth), purple (youth), green (adolescent), orange (adulthood), white (old age), violet (imminent death) and black/scarlet (death).

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