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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 Usher carrying as he knocks on the narrator's door?
(a) A book
(b) A Bible
(c) A sword
(d) A lantern

2. What emotion does the narrator say is rapidly increasing as he sits aside his horse and surveys the surroundings?
(a) Superstition
(b) Anticipation
(c) Distaste
(d) Optimism

3. What deficiency does the narrator note about the Usher family ancestry?
(a) It had included persons of dubious character
(b) That it was speckled with other races
(c) That the entire family lay in the direct line of descent
(d) That it had a number of issues that were never discussed

4. What word does the narrator use to describe the hours he spends with Usher?
(a) Frightful
(b) Peaceful
(c) Solemn
(d) Lazy

5. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised
(a) Usher's harangues against the gods
(b) Usher's dirges
(c) The paeans to his ancestral lineage
(d) The fighting songs the two sang together

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator explain what the two men witnessed when looking out the window?

2. How does the hero finally get into the dwelling?

3. What effect does Usher think plants have had upon his life?

4. What is the "grim phantasm"?

5. What music does Usher prefer?

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