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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 feel about how he is greeted?
(a) It is as if Usher is playing a game
(b) It is overdone
(c) It is sad
(d) It is foreboding

2. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere of the room?
(a) Lively
(b) Hopeful
(c) Sorrowful
(d) Quiet

3. What does the narrator think Usher is attempting to find the courage to do after Madeline has been dead for several days?
(a) Tell the narrator a secret
(b) Ask the narrator to live there permanently
(c) Bury Madeline
(d) Leave his home and travel abroad

4. What is the "grim phantasm"?
(a) Death
(b) The night
(c) Fear
(d) A ghost who haunts the House of Usher

5. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?
(a) It is immensely heavy
(b) It has metal bands that reinforce it and that scrape against the frame
(c) It has swelled and is too tight a fit in the frame
(d) It is poorly oiled

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised

2. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?

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

4. For what is the light coming through the windows of the room sufficient?

5. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?

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