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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fall of the House of Usher.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What music does Usher prefer?
(a) Stringed instruments
(b) Voice
(c) The harpsichord
(d) The flute

2. What superstitious impression chains Usher?
(a) The belief that the house of Usher had itself caused Usher's malady
(b) The belief that Usher's grandfather controls Usher's life from the other side
(c) The belief the garden is full of evil sprites
(d) The belief that a demon lives in the cellar

3. What does the narrator speculate has contributed to the appearance of the premises?
(a) The lack of priority to appearances
(b) The lack of strong conviction
(c) The difficulty of finding a gardener to work in such isolation
(d) The peculiarity of the family ancestry history

4. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
(a) A demon with Madeline's features confined in chains
(b) A vault of low walls
(c) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(d) Many demons feasting

5. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?
(a) The fact that the grounds are so well kept compared to the facade of the mansion
(b) The bright colors of the soffit compared to the grey of the stone
(c) The fact that so many individual stones are crumbling but the mansion is still quite intact
(d) The care taken with the cornices compared to the haphazard placing of the windows

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the tree trunks?

2. What does the narrator say he could not remake into something better?

3. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?

4. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised

5. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?

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