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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 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

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

3. How does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?
(a) Unintelligible
(b) Imaginative
(c) Lofty
(d) Base

4. For what is the light coming through the windows of the room sufficient?
(a) To distinguish many of the objects in the room
(b) To observe the gaunt frame of the master of the house
(c) To avoid tripping over the furniture
(d) To read or sew by

5. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?
(a) That Usher has ever been out of the house since arriving home several years ago
(b) That it is Usher at whom he is looking
(c) That Usher wants rescuing
(d) That Usher is among the living

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator help Usher carry?

2. What is the weather like that night?

3. What does the narrator say is paradoxical about emotions based upon terror?

4. Why does Usher want to wait a fortnight?

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

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