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

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

3. What superstitious impression chains Usher?
(a) The belief that a demon lives in the cellar
(b) The belief that the house of Usher had itself caused Usher's malady
(c) The belief the garden is full of evil sprites
(d) The belief that Usher's grandfather controls Usher's life from the other side

4. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?
(a) Ivy
(b) Fungi
(c) Streaks of red
(d) Moss

5. What feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?
(a) Pity and awe
(b) Bitterness and curiosity
(c) Terror
(d) Anger

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Lady Madeline had baffled her physicians?

2. What style were Usher's paintings?

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

4. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?

5. Who wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?

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