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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 describe as long and improvised
(a) Usher's harangues against the gods
(b) The fighting songs the two sang together
(c) The paeans to his ancestral lineage
(d) Usher's dirges

2. What is the narrator's response to the sounds?
(a) He decides to leave the next morning
(b) He prays for guidance
(c) He gets up and gets dressed
(d) He laughs

3. What is the expression on the face of the person the narrator encounters on the staircase?
(a) Cunning and perplexed
(b) Sad
(c) Welcoming
(d) Exuberant

4. What type of energy does the narrator believe Usher's chin shows?
(a) Moral
(b) Filial
(c) Goal-oriented
(d) Robust

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What infects the narrator?

2. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?

3. Who first occupies the place the lyrics describe?

4. What happens to the narrator as he lies in bed the eighth night after Madeline's death?

5. Who does Usher say is dying?

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