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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. How does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?
(a) Unintelligible
(b) Imaginative
(c) Lofty
(d) Base

2. What happens one night when the narrator goes to bed about eight days after Madeline has died?
(a) The narrator suffers all night with fits of nervousness
(b) Usher moans all night
(c) The house shakes as if in an earthquake
(d) The doors and windows open and close on their own

3. What is the setting of the picture the narrator describes?
(a) In the sky
(b) On top of a mountain
(c) On another planet
(d) In the depths of the earth

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

5. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?
(a) That Usher wants rescuing
(b) That Usher has ever been out of the house since arriving home several years ago
(c) That it is Usher at whom he is looking
(d) That Usher is among the living

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of energy does the narrator believe Usher's chin shows?

2. From what does the narrator say his feelings about Usher must arise?

3. What does Usher believe about plants?

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

5. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?

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