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

2. How does the narrator describe the window panes?
(a) As being enclosed in splintered wood
(b) As being dirty
(c) As being trellised
(d) As being glazed in thick lead

3. How does the narrator describe the clouds?
(a) Thin and wispy
(b) Dense and low
(c) Stacked to the heavens
(d) There were no clouds in sight

4. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?
(a) During a time when trying to quit the habit and the user is shaking in delirious confusion
(b) After the drug is worn off and the user has to eat some more
(c) During the initial time of intense excitement just after the user has had some opium
(d) When the drug is almost wore off

5. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?
(a) Crossing his breast upon viewing the home
(b) Holding a lit candle to the putrescent leaves
(c) Looking down within the tarn
(d) Pushing upon several of the leaning trees

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator often call Usher?

3. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?

4. What was the duty of the Echoes in the song?

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

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