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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 have to ride over to approach near the house?
(a) A short causeway
(b) A wooden bridge of several haphazard planks
(c) A covered bridge wide enough for three carriages to ride abreast
(d) A shallow stream

2. Between what two poles does Usher's actions alternate?
(a) Begging and condescension
(b) Childish delight and scorn
(c) Vivaciousness and sullenness
(d) Kindness and cruelty

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

4. How does the narrator explain what the two men witnessed when looking out the window?
(a) The end of all hope
(b) Satan's hand of evil
(c) God's vengeance
(d) Electrical phenomena

5. Who does the narrator meet on one of the staircases?
(a) Another good friend who went to school with the narrator and Usher
(b) The family physician
(c) A young boy
(d) The master of the house

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the clouds?

2. Where is the ruler in the early part of the song the narrator records?

3. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?

4. What does Usher say he dreads?

5. What feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?

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