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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 does Usher try to overcome in the presence of the narrator according to the narrator?
(a) The rancor the two men felt when they last parted
(b) The sorrow Usher felt when the narrator's sister rejected his marriage proposal
(c) The resentment Usher had always held toward the narrator for the narrator's superior mind
(d) Usher's nervous agitation

2. What does Usher believe about plants?
(a) They are the only thing one should eat
(b) They are insidious
(c) They have no value
(d) They are sentient

3. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About the Egyptian afterlife
(b) About African Satrys
(c) About the Illuminati
(d) About the death of Christ

4. What does the narrator do with his horse?
(a) Unsaddles and grooms it and leaves it in a stall
(b) Hands it over to a servant
(c) Ties it to a post
(d) Turns it loose in the pasture

5. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?
(a) The horror at being trapped with a madman
(b) Exactly what the two did during the time
(c) The ways Madeline continually impinged upon their time
(d) The sorrow at failing to cheer his friend

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides books, what else were scattered about in the room?

2. How does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?

3. What is one word the narrator uses to describe the book he picks up to read?

4. How does Usher prefer his food to be?

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

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