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<div id="ChapterHeading"> <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/raven.jpg" width="150px" height="150px"> (css: "font-size: 150%;")[**The Raven <strike>Vocabulary Quiz</strike> Game**] by Marcus Kai Wang & Elizabeth Wang [[Start]] <div>

QUESTION 1 What is the meaning of this word: Seraphim? A. [[Plural of Seraph, a type of angel.->Question 1 Right]] B. [[Plural of Sera, a type of tree.->Try Again!]] C. [[Plural of Raphim, a type of devil.->Try Again!]] D. [[Plural of Phim, a type of bird.->Try Again!]]

The Raven fixes you with a baleful eye. "NEVERMORE!" he croaks. Do you want to try again? (link-goto: "Try Again!", (history:)'s last) [[Restart from beginning->The Raven]] [[I Quit->Quit]] (set: $Raven to $Raven +1)

QUESTION 2 What is the meaning of this word: Nepenthe A. [[A drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing happiness and bringing trouble.->Try Again!]] B. [[A drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind.->Question 2 Right]] C. [[A drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing happiness and bringing grief.->Try Again!]] D. [[A drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing nervousness.->Try Again!]] (if: $Question2 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question2 to 1)

QUESTION 3 What is the meaning of this word: Pallid A. [[A regular face.->Try Again!]] B. [[A purple face.->Try Again!]] C. [[A greenish face.->Try Again!]] D. [[A white face.->Question 3 Right]] (if: $Question3 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question3 to 1)

QUESTION 4 What is the meaning of this word: Plutonian A. [[Associated with plutonium.->Try Again!]] B. [[Associated with heaven.->Try Again!]] C. [[Associated with the underworld.->Question 4 Right]] D. [[Associated with the overworld.->Try Again!]] (if: $Question4 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question4 to 1)

QUESTION 5 What is the meaning of this word: Dirges A. [[An expression of sadness for the undead.->Try Again!]] B. [[An expression of sadness for the dead.->Question 5 Right]] C. [[An expression of sadness for a raven.->Try Again!]] D. [[An expression of joy.->Try Again!]] (if: $Question5 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question5 to 1)

QUESTION 6 What is the meaning of this word: Censer A. [[A container in which incense is burned.->Question 6 Right]] B. [[Examine a draft of a book, movie, ect.->Try Again!]] C. [[Examine a book and a paper.->Try Again!]] D. [[Examine a thinking map of a book, movie, etc.->Try Again!]] (if: $Question6 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question6 to 1)

QUESTION 7 What is the meaning of this word: Fowl A. [[A fish->Try Again!]] B. [[A bird->Question 7 Right]] C. [[A lizard->Try Again!]] D. [[A dolphin->Try Again!]] (if: $Question7 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question7 to 1)

QUESTION 8 What is the meaning of this word: Decorum A. [[A particular requirement of good drinks.->Try Again!]] B. [[A particular requirement of good lunch.->Try Again!]] C. [[A particular requirement of good dinners.->Try Again!]] D. [[A particular requirement of good taste and propriety.->Question 8 Right]] (if: $Question8 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question8 to 1)

QUESTION 9 What is the meaning of this word: Discourse A. [[The tenth course of an elaborate meal.->Try Again!]] B. [[A kind of music.->Try Again!]] C. [[Written or spoken debate.->Question 9 Right]] D. [[A rough or coarse material.->Try Again!]] (if: $Question9 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question9 to 1)

QUESTION 10 What is the meaning of this word: Placid A. [[Always angry.->Try Again!]] B. [[Calm and peaceful.->Question 10 Right]] C. [[Frustrated.->Try Again!]] D. [[Antagonistic.->Try Again!]] (if: $Question10 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question10 to 1)

QUESTION 11 What is the meaning of this word: Obeisance A. [[Hatred->Try Again!]] B. [[Respect->Question 11 Right]] C. [[Conniving->Try Again!]] D. [[Obscurity->Try Again!]] (if: $Question11 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question11 to 1)

QUESTION 12 What is the meaning of this word: Surcease A. [[Source->Try Again!]] B. [[Cease->Question 12 Right]] C. [[Unseen->Try Again!]] D. [[Surreal->Try Again!]] (if: $Question12 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question12 to 1)

QUESTION 13 What is the meaning of this word: Beguiling A. [[Offputting->Try Again!]] B. [[Charming or enchanting->Question 13 Right]] C. [[Boorish or unrefined->Try Again!]] D. [[Bemoaning or complaining->Try Again!]] (if: $Question13 is 0)[ <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay> ] (set: $Question13 to 1)

The Raven caws enthusiastically! He spreads his wings and flies up towards the SKYLIGHT in the ceiling above you, the KEY glinting in his claws. Just as he reaches the skylight, he drops the KEY and it falls at your feet! [[Use the Key->Escape]] crowcallwav.wav

START <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/awake.jpg" width="150px" height="150px"> You awake to find yourself in a room. A fire crackles in the fireplace. There is a WINDOW that is closed with SHUTTERS. You hear someone tapping at the FRONT DOOR. [[Look at WOODEN DOOR->WOODEN DOOR]] [[Look at BUST->BUST]] [[Look at FRONT DOOR->FRONT DOOR]] [[Look at WINDOW->WINDOW]] <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/knockmp3.mp3" autoplay>

You open the BOOK. On the 1st page is a QUESTION. [[Read the QUESTION->Question 1]] <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/pageflipmp3.mp3" autoplay>

THE RAVEN A spotlight, meant to illuminate the bust of Pallas, casts the shadow of the raven menacingly on the floor. You look at the RAVEN closely. There is a key in his claws! If only he would drop the KEY! [[Look at DOOR->WOODEN DOOR]] [[Look at RAVEN->RAVEN]] [[Look at SKYLIGHT->WINDOW]] [[Look at BOOK->BOOK]]

WOODEN DOOR The wooden door is locked. "Let me out! Let me out!" you scream in panic while pounding on the door. The door does not open. [[Look at BUST->BUST]] [[Look at WINDOW->WINDOW]] [[Look at FRONT DOOR->FRONT DOOR]]

“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” you shriek, upstarting— “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” [[Finale]]

THE END You refuse to try any more questions in the book and instead pound on the door until you collapse on the floor of dehydration and pass away. And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas just above the chamber door. And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming. And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor. And your soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted—nevermore! <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/death.jpg" width="200px" height="200px"> YOU DIED! (link: "Restart")[(reload:)]

ESCAPE! You pick up the golden key. Your fingers tremble as you turn it in the lock. The door opens with a harsh creaking sound. Freedom is yours at last! You Have Won THE RAVEN! [[Would you like to play again?->The Raven]]

WINDOW The Window is framed by silken purple curtains that rustle in the wind. The sound thrills you, fills you with fantastic terrors never felt before. You cannot see out the window because the SHUTTERS are closed. {(if: $shutter is 0)[ [[Open SHUTTERS->SHUTTERS]] ] (else:)[ [[Open SHUTTERS->SHUTTER]] ] } [[Look at WOODEN DOOR->WOODEN DOOR]] [[Look at BUST->BUST]] [[Look at FRONT DOOR->FRONT DOOR]]

Correct! Seraph / Seraphim (plural) (Noun) An angelic being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardor, and purity. <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/seraphim.jpg" width="200px" height="200px"> "Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor." [[Flip the Page->Question 2]]

Correct! Nepenthe / Nepenthes (plural) (Noun) A drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind. Any drug or potion bringing welcome forgetfulness. <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/lenore.jpg" width="200px" height="200px"> "Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!” [[Flip the Page->Question 3]]

Correct! Pallid (adjective) (of a person's face) Pale, typically because of poor health. "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting / On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" [[Flip the Page->Question 4]]

Correct! Plutonian (Adjective) Of, relating to, or characteristic of Pluto or the lower world. <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/plutonian.jpg" width="200px" height="200px"> "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” [[Flip the Page->Question 5]]

Correct! Dirge / Dirges (Plural) (Noun) A lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite. "Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore” [[Flip the Page->Question 6]]

Correct! Censer / Censers (plural) (noun) A container in which incense is burned, typically during a religious ceremony. "Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer" [[Flip the Page->Question 7]]

Correct! Fowl / Fowls (plural) (noun) A bird. "Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly" [[Flip the Page->Question 8]]

Correct! Decorum / Decorums (plural) (noun) Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety. "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, / By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore" [[Flip the Page->Question 9]]

Correct! Discourse (Verb) speak or write authoritatively about a topic. "Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly" [[Flip the Page->Question 10]]

Correct! Placid (adjective) (of a person or animal) not easily upset or excited. "But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour." [[Flip the Page->Question 11]]

Correct! Obeisance / Obeisances (plural) (noun) A gesture expressing deferential respect, such as a bow or curtsy. "Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;/ But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door" [[Flip the Page->Question 12]]

Correct! Surcease (Noun) cessation. (Verb) cease "Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow / From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—" [[Flip the Page->Question 13]]

Correct! Beguiling (Adjective) Charming or enchanting, often in a deceptive way. "Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, / By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore," [[Flip the Page->Results]]

FRONT DOOR <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/graveyard.jpg" width="200px" height="200px" align="right"> You open wide the door - darkness there and nothing more! Deep into that darkness peering - long you stand there wondering, fearing, doubting... Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. But the silence is unbroken and the stillness gives no token and the only word there spoken is the whispered word, "Lenore." This you whisper and an echo murmurs back the word, "Lenore" - only this and nothing more. [[Return to Chamber->RETURN TO CHAMBER]]

SHUTTERS Rattle! Rattle! Rattle! The SHUTTERS won't open. They must be locked from the outside! [[Back->WINDOW]]

BUST <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/pallas2.jpg"> There is a white bust. At the base of the bust you read a name "Pallas." There is a glint of something below the bust. It is a KEY! [[Take KEY->KEY]] [[Look at WOODEN DOOR->WOODEN DOOR]] [[Look at WINDOW->WINDOW]] [[Look at FRONT DOOR->FRONT DOOR]]

KEY <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/key2.jpg"> You cannot reach the KEY! [[Back->BUST]]

CHAMBER <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/shutter.jpg" width="200px" height="200px"> Back into your chamber turning, all your soul within you burning soon again you hear a tapping somwhat louder than before. It sounds as though someone has unlocked the SHUTTER! “Surely,” you say, “surely that is something at my window lattice. Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore — Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;. ’Tis the wind and nothing more!” [[Open SHUTTER->SHUTTER]] [[Look at WOODEN DOOR->WOODEN DOOR]] [[Look at BUST->BUST]] [[Look at WINDOW->WINDOW]] <audio src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/audio/knockmp3.mp3" autoplay> (set: $shutter to 1)

OPEN SHUTTER <img src="https://marcuskaiwang.com/raven/images/open.jpg" width="150px" height="150px"> Open here you fling the shutter. With many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. He flies up towards the Bust of Pallas, and knocks a book off the shelf along the way. The RAVEN is now sitting next to the KEY. If only you could make him drop the key down to you! [[Talk to Raven->Talk to Raven1]] [[Look at Book->BOOK1]]

TALK TO RAVEN “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” you said, “art sure no craven. Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” [[Look at Book->BOOK1]]

BOOK This seems to be a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore! It's magical, magentic force seems to draw you into it. You feel like you are becoming trapped in it's spell! [[Open Book->BOOK]]