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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 know Usher is not asleep?
(a) Usher is humming
(b) Usher's eyes are wide open
(c) Usher is mumbling to himself
(d) Usher is pacing even though his eyes are closed

2. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
(a) A demon with Madeline's features confined in chains
(b) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(c) Many demons feasting
(d) A vault of low walls

3. Who first occupies the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Humans
(b) Beasts of the field
(c) Demons
(d) Angels

4. What is one thing the narrator say Usher suffers from intensely?
(a) Wrongful beliefs
(b) A morbid acuteness of the senses
(c) A childlike and dangerous belief in the unseen
(d) Poor nutrition

5. What is the "grim phantasm"?
(a) A ghost who haunts the House of Usher
(b) The night
(c) Death
(d) Fear

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lady Madeline do the same evening as the arrival of the narrator?

2. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?

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

4. What does the narrator say about Usher's countenance after Madeline dies?

5. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?

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