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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) Longfellow
(b) Canning
(c) Homer
(d) Wordsworth

2. What does Usher believe about plants?
(a) They are insidious
(b) They are the only thing one should eat
(c) They are sentient
(d) They have no value

3. The throngs in the song laugh, but what do they not do anymore?
(a) Sing
(b) Smile
(c) Dance
(d) Curtsy

4. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It burns down
(b) It sinks into the tarn
(c) It is hurled into the heavens
(d) It is left to rot

5. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?
(a) A placid life
(b) Being abandoned by all
(c) Being misunderstood
(d) Terror

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?

2. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?

3. What does the narrator say he could not remake into something better?

4. What does Usher do after shading his lamp's light?

5. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?

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