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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 hear through the noises of the storm?
(a) Low and indefinite sounds
(b) A trumpet blowing
(c) Screaming
(d) Horses galloping

2. How does Usher die?
(a) His sister kills him with a knife
(b) He jumps out of the window
(c) He dies of fright
(d) The narrator kills him by accident

3. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?
(a) Only the same night
(b) He wants to have the body lie in state in the church for three days
(c) He wants to burn the body
(d) A fortnight

4. What is the expression on the face of the person the narrator encounters on the staircase?
(a) Sad
(b) Welcoming
(c) Exuberant
(d) Cunning and perplexed

5. What does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?
(a) A light step
(b) A creaking door
(c) The sound of chains dragging
(d) Labored breathing

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Lady Madeline had baffled her physicians?

2. How does Usher prefer his food to be?

3. Who is the hero of Trist?

4. What does the narrator say is paradoxical about emotions based upon terror?

5. How does Usher react to bright light?

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