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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 the creature guarding?
(a) The elixir of youth
(b) A palace of gold
(c) A book
(d) Pandora's box

2. How does Usher prefer his food to be?
(a) Cool almost to the point of being cold
(b) Boiling hot
(c) Very spicy since he has little ability to taste
(d) Very mild

3. What does the narrator say about the archway that leads into the hall?
(a) It was newly repaired
(b) It was of Gothic architecture
(c) There was no archway
(d) It had slimy vines hanging from it

4. How does the narrator describe the window panes?
(a) As being glazed in thick lead
(b) As being trellised
(c) As being dirty
(d) As being enclosed in splintered wood

5. How does the narrator describe the small pond near the house?
(a) Black and lurid
(b) Like a mirror
(c) Clear and cold
(d) Green and tepid

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Usher want to wait a fortnight?

2. What does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?

3. What style were Usher's paintings?

4. What is the "grim phantasm"?

5. What does Usher believe about plants?

(see the answer key)

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