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

2. In what was much of the vault beneath the narrator's apartments sheathed?
(a) Stone
(b) Copper
(c) Iron
(d) Wood

3. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Yellow
(b) Black
(c) Red
(d) Blue

4. How does the narrator describe the window panes?
(a) As being enclosed in splintered wood
(b) As being glazed in thick lead
(c) As being dirty
(d) As being trellised

5. What is the title of the verses Usher composes that the narrator pens in the story?
(a) The Tin Palace
(b) The Miniature Mind
(c) The Thirty Years of Death
(d) The Haunted Palace

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?

2. Upon what does the narrator blame what happens the eighth night after Madeline's death?

3. What happens one night when the narrator goes to bed about eight days after Madeline has died?

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

5. What does the narrator say is paradoxical about emotions based upon terror?

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