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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 does the narrator notice about Madeline when he and Usher are staring at her in the coffin?
(a) She looks to have aged several decades
(b) She looks incredibly sad
(c) She has a look of horror on her face
(d) She has a bit of blush to her cheeks and a lingering smile

2. What does the narrator say he often finds Usher doing?
(a) Staring off into space for hours at a time
(b) Cutting his arms
(c) Singing a lullaby to Madeline
(d) Talking to Madeline as if she were still alive

3. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?
(a) Streaks of red
(b) Ivy
(c) Moss
(d) Fungi

4. What feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?
(a) Pity and awe
(b) Terror
(c) Bitterness and curiosity
(d) Anger

5. Who leads the narrator through the house?
(a) The cook
(b) No one; he goes himself
(c) The valet
(d) The narrator's friend's sister

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the Usher's favorite volumes that the narrator and Usher read?

2. What does the narrator realize the closer he becomes to Usher?

3. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?

4. How does the narrator describe the night?

5. Of what does the narrator say the atmosphere reeks?

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