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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. How often is it likely that the narrator will see Madeline in the future?
(a) Probably at the formal dinners every evening
(b) At least at chapel on Wednesdays and Sundays
(c) Probably daily as she checks on her brother regularly
(d) Probably never again
2. How does the narrator explain what the two men witnessed when looking out the window?
(a) God's vengeance
(b) The end of all hope
(c) Satan's hand of evil
(d) Electrical phenomena
3. 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
4. What bewilders the narrator as he listens to Usher speak of his problem?
(a) Why Usher refuses to see a physician
(b) Why Usher wants the narrator there
(c) The way Usher speaks in a combination of French, English and Italian
(d) Some of the symptoms that Usher relates pertaining to his malady
5. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?
(a) Robes of sorrow
(b) Robes of white and gold
(c) Robes of crimson death
(d) They were naked
Short Answer Questions
1. What group of people does the narrator say is suggested in Usher's nose?
2. What color are the tree trunks?
3. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?
4. What does Usher think the sounds in the house are?
5. What is Usher carrying as he knocks on the narrator's door?
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