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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 appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?
(a) Usher's desire to enlist the narrator's aid
(b) Usher's general demeanor
(c) Usher's joviality
(d) Usher's recital of a poem that makes no sense

2. What does the narrator see when he looks in Usher's eyes?
(a) Hope
(b) Mad hilarity
(c) A strange calmness
(d) Overwhelming grief

3. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?
(a) Painting and reading
(b) Wild boar hunting
(c) Playing the harpsichord and singing
(d) Fencing and fox hunting

4. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?
(a) When the drug is almost wore off
(b) During the initial time of intense excitement just after the user has had some opium
(c) After the drug is worn off and the user has to eat some more
(d) During a time when trying to quit the habit and the user is shaking in delirious confusion

5. What does the narrator say is paradoxical about emotions based upon terror?
(a) They seldom are without a humorous side
(b) They are born of the feelings of goodness
(c) They are increased upon the contemplation of said emotions
(d) They are decreased when one chooses to use terror himself

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere of the room?

2. What deficiency does the narrator note about the Usher family ancestry?

3. What does the narrator say he could not remake into something better?

4. What does Usher say about his relationship with his sister?

5. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?

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