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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 are the trees like that are in the yard?
(a) Heavily leafed
(b) Newly-planted
(c) Blooming
(d) Decaying

2. What is the title of the verses Usher composes that the narrator pens in the story?
(a) The Thirty Years of Death
(b) The Miniature Mind
(c) The Tin Palace
(d) The Haunted Palace

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

4. What does the hero of Trist find instead of the hermit?
(a) A dragon
(b) A crow
(c) A cat
(d) An eagle

5. What is the expression on the face of the person the narrator encounters on the staircase?
(a) Exuberant
(b) Sad
(c) Welcoming
(d) Cunning and perplexed

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator often call Usher?

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

3. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?

4. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?

5. What style were Usher's paintings?

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