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

2. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?
(a) Their name and their behavior
(b) Their madness and generosity
(c) Their intellect and their eccentricities
(d) Their family name and the family mansion

3. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?
(a) The narrator orders Usher to leave
(b) The narrator is glad to know it is not Usher who his moaning
(c) The narrator is unhappy
(d) The narrator is uncomfortable but also any company is a relief

4. How does the narrator feel when he gained his first glimpse of the House of Usher?
(a) Gloomy
(b) Anxious
(c) Hopeful
(d) Optimistic

5. How is Usher's skin described?
(a) Flushed
(b) A ghastly pallor
(c) Ruddy
(d) An upper-class paleness

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator hear through the noises of the storm?

2. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?

3. Upon what does the narrator blame what happens the eighth night after Madeline's death?

4. What does Usher think the sounds in the house are?

5. How does the narrator know Usher is not asleep?

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