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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 wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Longfellow
(c) Homer
(d) Canning

2. How does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?
(a) Imaginative
(b) Base
(c) Lofty
(d) Unintelligible

3. What happens to the trophies of armor when the narrator walks past them?
(a) Nothing
(b) They bow
(c) They rattle
(d) They light up

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

5. What does Usher admit in a lucid moment concerning his gloomy outlook?
(a) It is probably due to his severe and long-standing illness
(b) It is probably because of his sister's absence for the past several months
(c) It is probably because he has not gone anywhere for a while
(d) It is probably due to the extreme overcast weather of late

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the impact of Usher's condition on the narrator?

2. What does the narrator notice about Madeline when he and Usher are staring at her in the coffin?

3. What does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?

4. What does the narrator say Usher must not do?

5. Of what does the narrator say the atmosphere reeks?

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