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

2. Upon what does the narrator blame what happens the eighth night after Madeline's death?
(a) Too much wine for dinner
(b) The lack of Usher's faith
(c) The vision of Madeline as they looked at her in the coffin
(d) The gloomy room furnishings

3. What appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?
(a) Usher's desire to enlist the narrator's aid
(b) Usher's general demeanor
(c) Usher's joviality
(d) Usher's recital of a poem that makes no sense

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

5. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?
(a) The caterpillar's preference for plants
(b) The wild flowers
(c) The fungus on the walls of the house
(d) The grasses in the meadows

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Usher die?

2. What is the creature guarding?

3. What does the narrator perceive under the mass of cloud vapors?

4. To what does the narrator compare his depression of the soul?

5. How does the narrator describe the night?

(see the answer key)

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