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

2. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?
(a) Someone else reading the same story in another part of the house
(b) The same sound his imagination conjured in reading the book
(c) Nothing
(d) A voice saying, You die.

3. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?
(a) Robes of crimson death
(b) They were naked
(c) Robes of white and gold
(d) Robes of sorrow

4. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?
(a) Only the same night
(b) He wants to burn the body
(c) A fortnight
(d) He wants to have the body lie in state in the church for three days

5. What is the "Ververt et Chartreuse"?
(a) A poem by Machiavelli
(b) A painting by Monet
(c) A book ostensibly by Gresset
(d) A region in France

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?

2. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?

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

4. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?

5. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere of the room?

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