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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 does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?
(a) Base
(b) Unintelligible
(c) Imaginative
(d) Lofty

2. What does the narrator note about the mansion's walls?
(a) The walls are covered in pictographs
(b) Some walls are crumbling and some are not
(c) They have recently been repaired
(d) The walls are pitted by deer shot

3. What happens one night when the narrator goes to bed about eight days after Madeline has died?
(a) Usher moans all night
(b) The house shakes as if in an earthquake
(c) The doors and windows open and close on their own
(d) The narrator suffers all night with fits of nervousness

4. What feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?
(a) Anger
(b) Bitterness and curiosity
(c) Terror
(d) Pity and awe

5. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?
(a) Strauss
(b) Usher's own
(c) Von Weber
(d) Mozart

Short Answer Questions

1. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?

2. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?

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

4. Who is the hero of Trist?

5. Of what does the narrator say the atmosphere reeks?

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