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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 does the narrator help Usher carry?
(a) Usher's deerhound's body
(b) Madeline's coffin
(c) Stacks of books to a vault in the basement
(d) All the musical instruments that Usher decides to burn

2. 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

3. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?
(a) Scratched his own face
(b) Put his head in his hands
(c) Wrapped himself in the sheet from the bed
(d) Turned Usher's chair to face the door of the chamber

4. What does the narrator see when he looks in Usher's eyes?
(a) Overwhelming grief
(b) Mad hilarity
(c) Hope
(d) A strange calmness

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?

2. Besides books, what else were scattered about in the room?

3. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?

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

5. For what is the light coming through the windows of the room sufficient?

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