5. Which quotation foreshadows their inevitable death?
A. It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall a gigantic clock of
ebony.
B. "The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to
think."
C. It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence
raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a
masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.
D. "The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over
the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and
hue. But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the
decorations. The panes here were scarlet-a deep blood color."