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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 expression on the face of the person the narrator encounters on the staircase?
(a) Welcoming
(b) Sad
(c) Exuberant
(d) Cunning and perplexed

2. Of what does the narrator say the atmosphere reeks?
(a) Evil
(b) Decayed trees and grey walls
(c) Lethargy
(d) Sadness

3. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?
(a) Storing scrolls
(b) Torture and imprisonment
(c) Storing food
(d) A bolt hole

4. Of what texture is Usher's hair?
(a) Coarse
(b) Wirily
(c) Web-like softness
(d) Chopped

5. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?
(a) Sanguine
(b) Mercurial
(c) Artistic
(d) Placid

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher as the narrator after a few moments of staring into space?

2. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere of the room?

3. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?

4. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?

5. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?

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