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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 is poorly oiled
(b) It has metal bands that reinforce it and that scrape against the frame
(c) It is immensely heavy
(d) It has swelled and is too tight a fit in the frame

2. What does Lady Madeline do the same evening as the arrival of the narrator?
(a) Leave to go visit a cousin
(b) Take to her bed and not get up
(c) Go out for a ride and not return
(d) Paint a dark, bleak picture of the house of Usher

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

4. What does Usher hope to gain from the narrator?
(a) Money
(b) Forgiveness
(c) An agreement to marry Usher's sister
(d) Solace

5. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?
(a) By gossip among classmates
(b) By Usher's letter to the narrator
(c) By a letter penned by Usher's cousin
(d) By the doctor, whom the narrator encounters in town before riding to the house of Usher

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator meet on one of the staircases?

2. What about Lady Madeline had baffled her physicians?

3. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?

4. From what does the narrator say his feelings about Usher must arise?

5. What does the narrator think Usher is attempting to find the courage to do after Madeline has been dead for several days?

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