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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 creature guarding?
(a) A palace of gold
(b) The elixir of youth
(c) A book
(d) Pandora's box

2. What does the narrator say is the cause of his initial impression and feelings as he approaches the House of Usher?
(a) A combination of his trepidation about his new job and being recently widowed
(b) A combination of how the entire outside of the house and grounds appeared
(c) The desire to do well in his new employment
(d) The knowledge that his best friend has died in that house

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

4. What does the narrator say about Usher's countenance after Madeline dies?
(a) It is terribly sorrowful
(b) It is florid
(c) It is more pallid than ever
(d) It starts showing a little more color

5. What does the narrator say is inaccessible in the room to which he is shown?
(a) The books on the upper bookcases
(b) The windows
(c) The high bed
(d) The paintings of former generations of the Usher family

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roderick Usher hope will happen through a visit by the narrator?

2. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised

3. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?

4. To what does the narrator compare his depression of the soul?

5. Of what does the narrator suggest the MS. he receives gives evidence?

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