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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 say Usher must not do?
(a) Look outside
(b) Go back to his room
(c) Go down to his sister's coffin
(d) Go outside

2. After glancing at Usher, what does the narrator believe about the way in which Usher welcomes him?
(a) It is practiced
(b) It is sincere
(c) It is feigned
(d) It is confusing

3. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?
(a) Pushing upon several of the leaning trees
(b) Holding a lit candle to the putrescent leaves
(c) Crossing his breast upon viewing the home
(d) Looking down within the tarn

4. What does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?
(a) Darkness from Usher's mind
(b) His fascination with his sister's illness.
(c) Gossip about their fellow students.
(d) The story of his parents' individual deaths

5. What does Usher fear about Madeline?
(a) That she was attacked by demons
(b) That she hated Usher
(c) That she was still alive when put in her coffin
(d) That she was terrified at the moment of her death

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?

2. How does Usher die?

3. How does the narrator describe Usher's overall countenance?

4. What does the narrator notice about Madeline when he and Usher are staring at her in the coffin?

5. What does the narrator help Usher carry?

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