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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 narrator unable to see in the room?
(a) The colors of the tapestries
(b) The fact that there was someone else in the room besides his friend
(c) The recesses of the ceiling
(d) The expression on his friend's face

2. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?
(a) The ways Madeline continually impinged upon their time
(b) The horror at being trapped with a madman
(c) Exactly what the two did during the time
(d) The sorrow at failing to cheer his friend

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

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

5. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
(a) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(b) A vault of low walls
(c) A demon with Madeline's features confined in chains
(d) Many demons feasting

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?

2. The throngs in the song laugh, but what do they not do anymore?

3. How does the narrator describe the clouds?

4. Besides books, what else were scattered about in the room?

5. What group of people does the narrator say is suggested in Usher's nose?

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