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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 odors does Usher find oppressive?
(a) The odor from the dog
(b) The odor of cooked meat
(c) The scent from flowers
(d) The smell of women's perfume

2. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?
(a) Mozart
(b) Usher's own
(c) Strauss
(d) Von Weber

3. What startles the narrator as he reads one part of Trist?
(a) The narrator imagines he hears the same sounds in Usher's house
(b) The words seem to be moving across the page
(c) The words start being blurry
(d) Usher begins hyperventilating

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the narrator say the atmosphere reeks?

2. What does Usher say he dreads?

3. What does the narrator say Usher must not do?

4. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?

5. How often is it likely that the narrator will see Madeline in the future?

(see the answer key)

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