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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 the window panes?
(a) As being glazed in thick lead
(b) As being enclosed in splintered wood
(c) As being trellised
(d) As being dirty

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 the weather like that night?
(a) Mild and clear
(b) A full moon and no stars
(c) A steady drizzle with no wind
(d) Tempestuous

4. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?
(a) During the initial time of intense excitement just after the user has had some opium
(b) When the drug is almost wore off
(c) During a time when trying to quit the habit and the user is shaking in delirious confusion
(d) After the drug is worn off and the user has to eat some more

5. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?
(a) It has swelled and is too tight a fit in the frame
(b) It is poorly oiled
(c) It is immensely heavy
(d) It has metal bands that reinforce it and that scrape against the frame

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think Usher is attempting to find the courage to do after Madeline has been dead for several days?

3. What is the source of the lighting in the painting the narrator describes?

4. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?

5. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?

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