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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 does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?
(a) Darkness from Usher's mind
(b) Gossip about their fellow students.
(c) His fascination with his sister's illness.
(d) The story of his parents' individual deaths

2. What is the impact of Usher's condition on the narrator?
(a) It saddens the narrator
(b) It terrifies the narrator
(c) It makes the narrator want to remove Usher from the premises
(d) It mystifies the narrator

3. What does the hero of Trist find instead of the hermit?
(a) A dragon
(b) An eagle
(c) A cat
(d) A crow

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

5. What is the weather like that night?
(a) A steady drizzle with no wind
(b) Mild and clear
(c) Tempestuous
(d) A full moon and no stars

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?

2. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised

3. What does the narrator say he often finds Usher doing?

4. What does the narrator notice about Madeline when he and Usher are staring at her in the coffin?

5. In what was much of the vault beneath the narrator's apartments sheathed?

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