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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) A ghost who haunts the House of Usher
(b) Fear
(c) Death
(d) The night

2. For what is the light coming through the windows of the room sufficient?
(a) To read or sew by
(b) To observe the gaunt frame of the master of the house
(c) To distinguish many of the objects in the room
(d) To avoid tripping over the furniture

3. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About the Illuminati
(b) About African Satrys
(c) About the death of Christ
(d) About the Egyptian afterlife

4. What does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?
(a) The story of his parents' individual deaths
(b) Gossip about their fellow students.
(c) Darkness from Usher's mind
(d) His fascination with his sister's illness.

5. What word does the narrator use to describe the tapestries?
(a) Threadbare
(b) Intricately woven
(c) Somber
(d) Richly colored

Short Answer Questions

1. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?

2. What does the hero of Trist believe himself to be?

3. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?

4. After glancing at Usher, what does the narrator believe about the way in which Usher welcomes him?

5. How does the narrator describe the window panes?

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