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

2. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?
(a) A lightness
(b) A relief
(c) A drudgery
(d) Bitter

3. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?
(a) The way the narrator wronged Usher at school
(b) Any mention of Usher's illness
(c) The Lady Madeline
(d) The way Usher wronged the narrator at school

4. What is the narrator unable to see in the room?
(a) The colors of the tapestries
(b) The expression on his friend's face
(c) The fact that there was someone else in the room besides his friend
(d) The recesses of the ceiling

5. What does Usher think the sounds in the house are?
(a) His sister breaking loose from her coffin
(b) All his ancestors coming alive
(c) The devil's minions
(d) The acting out of the storm's fury

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Usher greet the narrator?

2. To what does the narrator compare his depression of the soul?

3. What is one of the Usher's favorite volumes that the narrator and Usher read?

4. What is Usher carrying as he knocks on the narrator's door?

5. Who does the narrator meet on one of the staircases?

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