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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 the narrator say he could not remake into something better?
(a) The prospects of no work
(b) His idea of his future employment
(c) The cast of gloom coming from the House of Usher
(d) The reason he has come to the House of Usher

2. In what was much of the vault beneath the narrator's apartments sheathed?
(a) Copper
(b) Iron
(c) Wood
(d) Stone

3. To what does the narrator say Usher seems to be listening?
(a) Pleas from the physicians who want Usher to accept sedation
(b) Usher's own sense of distorted reality
(c) Music from the drawing room
(d) Imaginary sounds

4. What else had prepared the narrator for Usher's appearance?
(a) By knowing what had happened to Usher's father
(b) Remembering a prophesy by a gypsy woman
(c) Remembering certain things about Usher as a child
(d) A letter penned by Usher's sister

5. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?
(a) By a letter penned by Usher's cousin
(b) By Usher's letter to the narrator
(c) By the doctor, whom the narrator encounters in town before riding to the house of Usher
(d) By gossip among classmates

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher hope to gain from the narrator?

2. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?

3. How is Usher's skin described?

4. What type of energy does the narrator believe Usher's chin shows?

5. Of what does the narrator suggest the MS. he receives gives evidence?

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