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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. How does the narrator feel about how he is greeted?
(a) It is overdone
(b) It is sad
(c) It is as if Usher is playing a game
(d) It is foreboding

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 is poorly oiled
(b) It has swelled and is too tight a fit in the frame
(c) It has metal bands that reinforce it and that scrape against the frame
(d) It is immensely heavy

3. What does the hero of Trist believe himself to be?
(a) The new guardian of the hermitage
(b) The champion of the brazen shield
(c) The slayer of the serpent
(d) The defender of the weak

4. How does the narrator feel when he gained his first glimpse of the House of Usher?
(a) Gloomy
(b) Optimistic
(c) Anxious
(d) Hopeful

5. What does Usher try to overcome in the presence of the narrator according to the narrator?
(a) Usher's nervous agitation
(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) The rancor the two men felt when they last parted

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator offer to read to Usher?

2. To what does the narrator say Usher seems to be listening?

3. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?

4. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?

5. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?

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