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

2. What is the "grim phantasm"?
(a) Death
(b) The night
(c) Fear
(d) A ghost who haunts the House of Usher

3. What does the narrator note about the mansion's walls?
(a) The walls are covered in pictographs
(b) Some walls are crumbling and some are not
(c) They have recently been repaired
(d) The walls are pitted by deer shot

4. Who does Usher say is dying?
(a) His cousin
(b) His sister
(c) His brother
(d) His mother

5. What does the narrator say is "cadaverously wan"?
(a) The face of the servant that comes in behind Usher
(b) The glow of the lantern
(c) The light outside the window
(d) Usher's countenance

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?

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

3. What is the "Ververt et Chartreuse"?

4. What is one thing the narrator says Roderick Usher writes about to him?

5. How does the narrator explain what the two men witnessed when looking out the window?

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