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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 does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?
(a) His fascination with his sister's illness.
(b) Gossip about their fellow students.
(c) Darkness from Usher's mind
(d) The story of his parents' individual deaths

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

3. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised
(a) Usher's harangues against the gods
(b) Usher's dirges
(c) The fighting songs the two sang together
(d) The paeans to his ancestral lineage

4. What does Usher as the narrator after a few moments of staring into space?
(a) If the narrator wishes to leave upon the morrow
(b) If the narrator has seen it
(c) If Usher is mad
(d) If the narrator will go and fetch the physician

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the narrator through the house?

2. What is the setting of the picture the narrator describes?

3. What does the hero of Trist believe himself to be?

4. What does the narrator note about the mansion's walls?

5. Into whose dwelling is the hero of Trist trying to enter?

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