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

2. What is one word the author uses to describe the furniture?
(a) Fragile
(b) Comfortless
(c) Well maintained
(d) Comfortable

3. 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) The rancor the two men felt when they last parted
(d) Usher's nervous agitation

4. How does the narrator explain what the two men witnessed when looking out the window?
(a) God's vengeance
(b) Electrical phenomena
(c) The end of all hope
(d) Satan's hand of evil

5. What color are the tree trunks?
(a) White
(b) Yellowed
(c) Grey
(d) Brown

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Usher think he got his malady?

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

3. What emotion does the narrator say is rapidly increasing as he sits aside his horse and surveys the surroundings?

4. What does the narrator realize the closer he becomes to Usher?

5. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?

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