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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. In what was much of the vault beneath the narrator's apartments sheathed?
(a) Copper
(b) Wood
(c) Iron
(d) Stone

2. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?
(a) Fungi
(b) Streaks of red
(c) Ivy
(d) Moss

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

4. How does the hero finally get into the dwelling?
(a) He doesn't get in
(b) Coaxing
(c) By force
(d) Magic

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the narrator through the house?

2. What startles the narrator as he reads one part of Trist?

3. What does Usher say about his relationship with his sister?

4. What does the narrator say he often finds Usher doing?

5. The throngs in the song laugh, but what do they not do anymore?

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