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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. Who leads the narrator through the house?
(a) The narrator's friend's sister
(b) The valet
(c) No one; he goes himself
(d) The cook

2. What music does Usher prefer?
(a) The flute
(b) The harpsichord
(c) Stringed instruments
(d) Voice

3. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?
(a) Crossing his breast upon viewing the home
(b) Holding a lit candle to the putrescent leaves
(c) Pushing upon several of the leaning trees
(d) Looking down within the tarn

4. What is one word the narrator uses to describe the book he picks up to read?
(a) Enlightening
(b) Charming
(c) Prosy
(d) Uncouth

5. What does Usher say he dreads?
(a) Events in the future
(b) Losing his mind
(c) His sister suffering because of him
(d) The past being uncovered

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator first conducted when he enters the house of Usher?

2. What does Usher believe about plants?

3. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?

4. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?

5. What does the narrator have to ride over to approach near the house?

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