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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 sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?
(a) Fencing and fox hunting
(b) Playing the harpsichord and singing
(c) Painting and reading
(d) Wild boar hunting

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

3. What happens to the narrator as he lies in bed the eighth night after Madeline's death?
(a) He prays and sees a light from the heavens
(b) He is assaulted by one of the serving lads
(c) He imagines his mother calling him
(d) A blanket of utter terror falls upon his heart

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like that night?

2. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?

3. What is the expression on the face of the person the narrator encounters on the staircase?

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

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

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