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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 is one word the author uses to describe the furniture?
(a) Comfortable
(b) Well maintained
(c) Fragile
(d) Comfortless

2. What does the hero of Trist believe himself to be?
(a) The defender of the weak
(b) The new guardian of the hermitage
(c) The champion of the brazen shield
(d) The slayer of the serpent

3. Who wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?
(a) Longfellow
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Canning
(d) Homer

4. How does the narrator describe the clouds?
(a) Thin and wispy
(b) Dense and low
(c) Stacked to the heavens
(d) There were no clouds in sight

5. What word does the narrator use to describe the tapestries?
(a) Richly colored
(b) Intricately woven
(c) Threadbare
(d) Somber

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?

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

3. What is one thing the narrator say Usher suffers from intensely?

4. What does Usher as the narrator after a few moments of staring into space?

5. Besides books, what else were scattered about in the room?

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