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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 Usher try to overcome in the presence of the narrator according to the narrator?
(a) The sorrow Usher felt when the narrator's sister rejected his marriage proposal
(b) The resentment Usher had always held toward the narrator for the narrator's superior mind
(c) Usher's nervous agitation
(d) The rancor the two men felt when they last parted

2. What is one thing the narrator says Roderick Usher writes about to him?
(a) Grievous physical illness
(b) A problem with his inheritance
(c) A legal problem
(d) An upcoming marriage

3. What does the narrator say is inaccessible in the room to which he is shown?
(a) The books on the upper bookcases
(b) The high bed
(c) The paintings of former generations of the Usher family
(d) The windows

4. What is the creature guarding?
(a) A book
(b) A palace of gold
(c) Pandora's box
(d) The elixir of youth

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Usher greet the narrator?

2. Which work of Swedenborg's does the narrator mention?

3. Who wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?

4. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?

5. How does the narrator describe the House of Usher?

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