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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 way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?
(a) By Usher's letter to the narrator
(b) By the doctor, whom the narrator encounters in town before riding to the house of Usher
(c) By gossip among classmates
(d) By a letter penned by Usher's cousin

2. What does the narrator realize the closer he becomes to Usher?
(a) Usher is not as bad off as the narrator first believes
(b) Usher only wants to cause the narrator discomfort
(c) It is futile to try to cheer Usher
(d) Usher is faking his problems

3. What does the narrator often call Usher?
(a) Eccentric
(b) Hypochondriac
(c) Misguided
(d) Sadistic

4. What is the "grim phantasm"?
(a) Fear
(b) The night
(c) A ghost who haunts the House of Usher
(d) Death

5. What is Usher carrying as he knocks on the narrator's door?
(a) A book
(b) A lantern
(c) A Bible
(d) A sword

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator help Usher carry?

2. What infects the narrator?

3. Of what does the narrator suggest the MS. he receives gives evidence?

4. What superstitious impression chains Usher?

5. For what place does the narrator say the atmosphere of the House of Usher has no affinity?

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