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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 does the narrator describe the clouds?
(a) There were no clouds in sight
(b) Dense and low
(c) Thin and wispy
(d) Stacked to the heavens

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

3. What startles the narrator as he reads one part of Trist?
(a) The narrator imagines he hears the same sounds in Usher's house
(b) The words seem to be moving across the page
(c) The words start being blurry
(d) Usher begins hyperventilating

4. What is the narrator's response to the sounds?
(a) He gets up and gets dressed
(b) He prays for guidance
(c) He decides to leave the next morning
(d) He laughs

5. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Black
(b) Blue
(c) Yellow
(d) Red

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?

2. Who leads the narrator through the house?

3. What does the narrator do with his horse?

4. From where does Usher think he got his malady?

5. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?

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