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

2. How does the narrator describe the night?
(a) Beautiful though stern
(b) Torpid
(c) Deceptive
(d) Serene

3. What does the narrator say about the archway that leads into the hall?
(a) It had slimy vines hanging from it
(b) It was of Gothic architecture
(c) There was no archway
(d) It was newly repaired

4. What does the narrator say about Usher after they had placed Madeline's coffin in the vault below the narrator's apartments?
(a) Usher seemed more at peace
(b) Usher did very little but wander from room to room
(c) Usher burned all his paintings of Madeline
(d) Usher actually smiled a few times

5. Who does the narrator meet on one of the staircases?
(a) The family physician
(b) The master of the house
(c) A young boy
(d) Another good friend who went to school with the narrator and Usher

Short Answer Questions

1. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?

2. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?

3. What startles the narrator as he reads one part of Trist?

4. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?

5. What does the narrator speculate has contributed to the appearance of the premises?

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