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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 is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?
(a) By the doctor, whom the narrator encounters in town before riding to the house of Usher
(b) By Usher's letter to the narrator
(c) By gossip among classmates
(d) By a letter penned by Usher's cousin

2. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?
(a) Artistic
(b) Placid
(c) Sanguine
(d) Mercurial

3. What is the weather like that night?
(a) A full moon and no stars
(b) A steady drizzle with no wind
(c) Mild and clear
(d) Tempestuous

4. What does the narrator say about Usher's countenance after Madeline dies?
(a) It is florid
(b) It is more pallid than ever
(c) It is terribly sorrowful
(d) It starts showing a little more color

5. What appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?
(a) Usher's joviality
(b) Usher's general demeanor
(c) Usher's desire to enlist the narrator's aid
(d) Usher's recital of a poem that makes no sense

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?

2. Of what does the narrator suggest the MS. he receives gives evidence?

3. What about Lady Madeline had baffled her physicians?

4. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?

5. What is the "grim phantasm"?

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