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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 is Usher carrying as he knocks on the narrator's door?
(a) A lantern
(b) A sword
(c) A book
(d) A Bible

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 vault of low walls
(c) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(d) Many demons feasting

3. What emotion does the narrator say is rapidly increasing as he sits aside his horse and surveys the surroundings?
(a) Distaste
(b) Optimism
(c) Superstition
(d) Anticipation

4. How does the narrator describe the small pond near the house?
(a) Clear and cold
(b) Black and lurid
(c) Green and tepid
(d) Like a mirror

5. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?
(a) Mercurial
(b) Placid
(c) Artistic
(d) Sanguine

Short Answer Questions

1. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?

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

3. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?

4. What does Usher say he dreads?

5. How does the narrator describe the window panes?

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