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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 the narrator doing at the opening of the story?
(a) Riding on horseback
(b) Writing a letter to his son
(c) Fighting in a duel
(d) Plowing

2. Of what does the narrator say the atmosphere reeks?
(a) Evil
(b) Decayed trees and grey walls
(c) Sadness
(d) Lethargy

3. What does the narrator think Usher is attempting to find the courage to do after Madeline has been dead for several days?
(a) Tell the narrator a secret
(b) Ask the narrator to live there permanently
(c) Bury Madeline
(d) Leave his home and travel abroad

4. What does Usher try to overcome in the presence of the narrator according to the narrator?
(a) The rancor the two men felt when they last parted
(b) The resentment Usher had always held toward the narrator for the narrator's superior mind
(c) The sorrow Usher felt when the narrator's sister rejected his marriage proposal
(d) Usher's nervous agitation

5. What does Usher believe will happen concerning his illness?
(a) He will recover but it will be a long time coming
(b) He has no opinion
(c) It will soon pass
(d) He will die of it

Short Answer Questions

1. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?

2. About what does the narrator say Usher had always been excessive and habitual?

3. What is the "grim phantasm"?

4. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?

5. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?

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