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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 deficiency does the narrator note about the Usher family ancestry?
(a) That it was speckled with other races
(b) It had included persons of dubious character
(c) That it had a number of issues that were never discussed
(d) That the entire family lay in the direct line of descent

2. What color are the tree trunks?
(a) White
(b) Yellowed
(c) Grey
(d) Brown

3. What infects the narrator?
(a) Usher's joy that his sister is free
(b) Usher's excitement at being free to leave the estate
(c) A cut the narrator receives in the bog
(d) Usher's condition

4. What does the narrator say is the principal feature of the Usher mansion upon closer inspection?
(a) Pretension
(b) Ostentatious detail
(c) Excessive antiquity
(d) Ornate gables

5. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?
(a) Wild boar hunting
(b) Fencing and fox hunting
(c) Painting and reading
(d) Playing the harpsichord and singing

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher hope to gain from the narrator?

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

3. For what does Usher think his sister will upbraid him?

4. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?

5. What else had prepared the narrator for Usher's appearance?

(see the answer key)

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