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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 happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It burns down
(b) It is hurled into the heavens
(c) It sinks into the tarn
(d) It is left to rot

2. What is one of the Usher's favorite volumes that the narrator and Usher read?
(a) Directorium Inquisitorium
(b) City of the Sun
(c) Subterranean Voyage
(d) Journey into the Blue Distance

3. What is the "Ververt et Chartreuse"?
(a) A poem by Machiavelli
(b) A region in France
(c) A book ostensibly by Gresset
(d) A painting by Monet

4. What does the narrator say about the archway that leads into the hall?
(a) It had slimy vines hanging from it
(b) It was newly repaired
(c) There was no archway
(d) It was of Gothic architecture

5. Why does the narrator think he should read out loud to Usher?
(a) It will have a calming effect
(b) To distract the narrator from the moaning sounds
(c) To keep the narrator from dashing outside.
(d) To lighten the narrator's mood

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?

2. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?

3. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?

4. What does Usher do after shading his lamp's light?

5. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?

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