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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 creature guarding?
(a) A book
(b) A palace of gold
(c) Pandora's box
(d) The elixir of youth
2. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?
(a) Pushing upon several of the leaning trees
(b) Holding a lit candle to the putrescent leaves
(c) Looking down within the tarn
(d) Crossing his breast upon viewing the home
3. What does the narrator help Usher carry?
(a) Madeline's coffin
(b) Usher's deerhound's body
(c) Stacks of books to a vault in the basement
(d) All the musical instruments that Usher decides to burn
4. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?
(a) The fungus on the walls of the house
(b) The grasses in the meadows
(c) The caterpillar's preference for plants
(d) The wild flowers
5. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere of the room?
(a) Lively
(b) Hopeful
(c) Sorrowful
(d) Quiet
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one word the author uses to describe the furniture?
2. What does the narrator say is the cause of his initial impression and feelings as he approaches the House of Usher?
3. Of what does the narrator suggest the MS. he receives gives evidence?
4. What color does the narrator say are the floors in the house of Usher?
5. How does the narrator feel when Usher's sister comes through the apartment where Usher and the narrator are?
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