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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 describe the clouds?
(a) There were no clouds in sight
(b) Dense and low
(c) Stacked to the heavens
(d) Thin and wispy

2. What does Usher think the sounds in the house are?
(a) The devil's minions
(b) All his ancestors coming alive
(c) The acting out of the storm's fury
(d) His sister breaking loose from her coffin

3. How many enduring branches can be found on the Usher family tree?
(a) No insignificant number
(b) About average for a prestigious line
(c) None
(d) Enough for respecibility

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the verses Usher composes that the narrator pens in the story?

2. What color is the light coming through the windows?

3. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?

4. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?

5. What does the hero of Trist find instead of the hermit?

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