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

2. Of what does the narrator say the atmosphere reeks?
(a) Lethargy
(b) Decayed trees and grey walls
(c) Evil
(d) Sadness

3. Who leads the narrator through the house?
(a) The valet
(b) The cook
(c) No one; he goes himself
(d) The narrator's friend's sister

4. What infects the narrator?
(a) A cut the narrator receives in the bog
(b) Usher's excitement at being free to leave the estate
(c) Usher's condition
(d) Usher's joy that his sister is free

5. What is one word the narrator uses to describe the book he picks up to read?
(a) Charming
(b) Enlightening
(c) Prosy
(d) Uncouth

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Usher react to bright light?

2. How does the narrator describe the window panes?

3. What is the narrator unable to see in the room?

4. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?

5. What is the title of the verses Usher composes that the narrator pens in the story?

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