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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 fell down at the feet of the hero?
(a) A shield
(b) A sword
(c) A tree
(d) A suit of armor

2. What is one thing the narrator say Usher suffers from intensely?
(a) A morbid acuteness of the senses
(b) A childlike and dangerous belief in the unseen
(c) Wrongful beliefs
(d) Poor nutrition

3. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?
(a) A bolt hole
(b) Storing scrolls
(c) Storing food
(d) Torture and imprisonment

4. What is one thing the narrator says Roderick Usher writes about to him?
(a) An upcoming marriage
(b) A legal problem
(c) Grievous physical illness
(d) A problem with his inheritance

5. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Yellow
(b) Black
(c) Red
(d) Blue

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher say he dreads?

2. What does the narrator say is "cadaverously wan"?

3. Who leads the narrator through the house?

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

5. What does the narrator say about Vigiliæ Mortuorum Secundum Chorum Ecclesiæ Maguntinæ?

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