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

2. What does Usher think the sounds in the house are?
(a) His sister breaking loose from her coffin
(b) All his ancestors coming alive
(c) The devil's minions
(d) The acting out of the storm's fury

3. To what does the narrator say Usher seems to be listening?
(a) Imaginary sounds
(b) Music from the drawing room
(c) Pleas from the physicians who want Usher to accept sedation
(d) Usher's own sense of distorted reality

4. From where does Usher think he got his malady?
(a) A friend who Usher nursed
(b) A bog on the far reaches of the estate
(c) A family evil
(d) His last trip to India

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?

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

3. What does the narrator say about Usher after they had placed Madeline's coffin in the vault below the narrator's apartments?

4. What does Usher say about his relationship with his sister?

5. What does the narrator say is the principal feature of the Usher mansion upon closer inspection?

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