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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 sad
(b) It is as if Usher is playing a game
(c) It is foreboding
(d) It is overdone

2. What is the "grim phantasm"?
(a) Death
(b) Fear
(c) The night
(d) A ghost who haunts the House of Usher

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

4. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
(a) A vault of low walls
(b) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(c) Many demons feasting
(d) A demon with Madeline's features confined in chains

5. Who wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?
(a) Homer
(b) Longfellow
(c) Canning
(d) Wordsworth

Short Answer Questions

1. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?

2. How does Usher greet the narrator?

3. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?

4. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?

5. What music does Usher prefer?

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