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

2. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It sinks into the tarn
(b) It is left to rot
(c) It burns down
(d) It is hurled into the heavens

3. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?
(a) Torture and imprisonment
(b) Storing scrolls
(c) A bolt hole
(d) Storing food

4. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?
(a) It is immensely heavy
(b) It has metal bands that reinforce it and that scrape against the frame
(c) It is poorly oiled
(d) It has swelled and is too tight a fit in the frame

5. What is the narrator unable to see in the room?
(a) The expression on his friend's face
(b) The colors of the tapestries
(c) The fact that there was someone else in the room besides his friend
(d) The recesses of the ceiling

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?

2. How does Usher prefer his food to be?

3. How does the narrator describe Usher's overall countenance?

4. What was the duty of the Echoes in the song?

5. What does Usher hope to gain from the narrator?

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