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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 emotion does the narrator say is rapidly increasing as he sits aside his horse and surveys the surroundings?
(a) Superstition
(b) Distaste
(c) Anticipation
(d) Optimism

2. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About African Satrys
(b) About the death of Christ
(c) About the Egyptian afterlife
(d) About the Illuminati

3. 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

4. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised
(a) The paeans to his ancestral lineage
(b) The fighting songs the two sang together
(c) Usher's harangues against the gods
(d) Usher's dirges

5. What does the narrator believe is odd about Usher's hair?
(a) That it is now the color of Usher's sister's hair
(b) That it is now thin and curly when before it had been thick and straight
(c) That it is no longer the same color as it was when he and Usher were in school
(d) That it floats around Usher's face rather than lying on the head

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say overtakes him as he watches Lady Madeline leave?

2. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?

3. What does the narrator offer to read to Usher?

4. How does Usher prefer his food to be?

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

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