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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. To what does the narrator compare his depression of the soul?
(a) A post-opiate after-dream
(b) The time he learned he had to leave his home that he loved
(c) The time when his wife died
(d) The time when his oldest child died

2. What is the narrator unable to see in the room?
(a) The colors of the tapestries
(b) The recesses of the ceiling
(c) The expression on his friend's face
(d) The fact that there was someone else in the room besides his friend

3. How does Usher prefer his food to be?
(a) Very mild
(b) Boiling hot
(c) Cool almost to the point of being cold
(d) Very spicy since he has little ability to taste

4. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?
(a) Animals
(b) Ideas
(c) Still life
(d) Landscapes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else had prepared the narrator for Usher's appearance?

2. In what was much of the vault beneath the narrator's apartments sheathed?

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

4. Between what two poles does Usher's actions alternate?

5. How does the narrator describe the night?

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