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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 one thing the narrator say Usher suffers from intensely?
(a) Wrongful beliefs
(b) Poor nutrition
(c) A morbid acuteness of the senses
(d) A childlike and dangerous belief in the unseen

2. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?
(a) A lightness
(b) A drudgery
(c) Bitter
(d) A relief

3. How does the narrator describe Usher's overall countenance?
(a) As noble
(b) As unmemorable
(c) As not easily forgotton
(d) As commonplace

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?

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

3. What does the narrator perceive under the mass of cloud vapors?

4. What does the narrator see when he looks in Usher's eyes?

5. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?

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