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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. How often is it likely that the narrator will see Madeline in the future?
(a) Probably never again
(b) At least at chapel on Wednesdays and Sundays
(c) Probably daily as she checks on her brother regularly
(d) Probably at the formal dinners every evening

2. What does the narrator say is "stern, deep, and irredeemable"?
(a) The condemnation that pervades the air in the room
(b) The gloom that pervades the air in the room
(c) The look on the master's face
(d) The look on the faces of the master's uncle

3. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Red
(b) Blue
(c) Black
(d) Yellow

4. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?
(a) He does not announce it; he lets the narrator learn of it when the narrator goes to visit Madeline
(b) He sings her a dirge
(c) Abruptly
(d) He has the physician tell the narrator

5. For what is the light coming through the windows of the room sufficient?
(a) To distinguish many of the objects in the room
(b) To read or sew by
(c) To observe the gaunt frame of the master of the house
(d) To avoid tripping over the furniture

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the hero of Trist?

2. What does the narrator note about the mansion's walls?

3. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?

4. About what does the narrator say Usher had always been excessive and habitual?

5. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?

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