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

2. What does the narrator say the windows of the House of Usher are like?
(a) Mirrors
(b) Eyes
(c) Dilapidated
(d) Ship portals

3. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?
(a) He sings her a dirge
(b) He does not announce it; he lets the narrator learn of it when the narrator goes to visit Madeline
(c) He has the physician tell the narrator
(d) Abruptly

4. Where is the ruler in the early part of the song the narrator records?
(a) Drowned in a river
(b) On his throne
(c) On his chariot
(d) There is no ruler

5. What does the narrator do with his horse?
(a) Unsaddles and grooms it and leaves it in a stall
(b) Ties it to a post
(c) Turns it loose in the pasture
(d) Hands it over to a servant

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe the night?

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

4. What is the "Ververt et Chartreuse"?

5. What infects the narrator?

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