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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 does the narrator hear through the noises of the storm?
(a) A trumpet blowing
(b) Low and indefinite sounds
(c) Screaming
(d) Horses galloping

2. From where does Usher think he got his malady?
(a) A bog on the far reaches of the estate
(b) A family evil
(c) His last trip to India
(d) A friend who Usher nursed

3. What does the narrator say is "stern, deep, and irredeemable"?
(a) The gloom that pervades the air in the room
(b) The look on the master's face
(c) The condemnation that pervades the air in the room
(d) The look on the faces of the master's uncle

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

5. What is the setting of the picture the narrator describes?
(a) On another planet
(b) In the sky
(c) In the depths of the earth
(d) On top of a mountain

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people does the narrator say is suggested in Usher's nose?

2. Where is the ruler in the early part of the song the narrator records?

3. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?

4. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?

5. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?

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