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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 believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?
(a) Nothing
(b) A voice saying, You die.
(c) The same sound his imagination conjured in reading the book
(d) Someone else reading the same story in another part of the house

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

3. From what does the narrator say his feelings about Usher must arise?
(a) A dream
(b) His earlier envy of Rodney's great intellect when they were in school together
(c) His lack of knowing Rodney's family
(d) A bit of fancy

4. What is the source of the lighting in the painting the narrator describes?
(a) The narrator is uncertain of the source
(b) The sun
(c) A comet
(d) A fire

5. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?
(a) Abruptly
(b) He has the physician tell the narrator
(c) He sings her a dirge
(d) He does not announce it; he lets the narrator learn of it when the narrator goes to visit Madeline

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator explain what the two men witnessed when looking out the window?

2. What about Lady Madeline had baffled her physicians?

3. What emotion does the narrator say is rapidly increasing as he sits aside his horse and surveys the surroundings?

4. What does the narrator perceive under the mass of cloud vapors?

5. Why does Usher want to wait a fortnight?

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