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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 color is the light coming through the windows?
(a) Rainbow colored
(b) Crimson
(c) Dark green
(d) Bright blue

2. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?
(a) It has swelled and is too tight a fit in the frame
(b) It is immensely heavy
(c) It is poorly oiled
(d) It has metal bands that reinforce it and that scrape against the frame

3. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?
(a) Crossing his breast upon viewing the home
(b) Pushing upon several of the leaning trees
(c) Holding a lit candle to the putrescent leaves
(d) Looking down within the tarn

4. What does the narrator say is the principal feature of the Usher mansion upon closer inspection?
(a) Pretension
(b) Excessive antiquity
(c) Ostentatious detail
(d) Ornate gables

5. Who does the narrator meet on one of the staircases?
(a) A young boy
(b) The master of the house
(c) The family physician
(d) Another good friend who went to school with the narrator and Usher

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to describe the hours he spends with Usher?

2. Into whose dwelling is the hero of Trist trying to enter?

3. What is the narrator unable to see in the room?

4. Upon what do the clouds press according to the narrator?

5. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?

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