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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 say about Usher after they had placed Madeline's coffin in the vault below the narrator's apartments?
(a) Usher actually smiled a few times
(b) Usher burned all his paintings of Madeline
(c) Usher seemed more at peace
(d) Usher did very little but wander from room to room

2. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?
(a) The narrator is unhappy
(b) The narrator is uncomfortable but also any company is a relief
(c) The narrator is glad to know it is not Usher who his moaning
(d) The narrator orders Usher to leave

3. How is Usher's skin described?
(a) Flushed
(b) An upper-class paleness
(c) Ruddy
(d) A ghastly pallor

4. What does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?
(a) Labored breathing
(b) A light step
(c) The sound of chains dragging
(d) A creaking door

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher hope to gain from the narrator?

2. What is the "grim phantasm"?

3. What does the narrator say is the cause of his initial impression and feelings as he approaches the House of Usher?

4. What is the "Ververt et Chartreuse"?

5. What does the narrator say the windows of the House of Usher are like?

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