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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 feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?
(a) Bitterness and curiosity
(b) Pity and awe
(c) Anger
(d) Terror

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

3. What is the source of the lighting in the painting the narrator describes?
(a) The sun
(b) A fire
(c) The narrator is uncertain of the source
(d) A comet

4. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?
(a) A relief
(b) Bitter
(c) A lightness
(d) A drudgery

5. How does the narrator describe the small pond near the house?
(a) Black and lurid
(b) Like a mirror
(c) Clear and cold
(d) Green and tepid

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher do after shading his lamp's light?

2. What odors does Usher find oppressive?

3. Why does the narrator think he should read out loud to Usher?

4. What is the impact of Usher's condition on the narrator?

5. What is the narrator's response to the sounds?

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