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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 does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?
(a) A light step
(b) A creaking door
(c) The sound of chains dragging
(d) Labored breathing

2. Who wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Homer
(c) Canning
(d) Longfellow

3. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?
(a) Animals
(b) Landscapes
(c) Ideas
(d) Still life

4. To what does the narrator compare his depression of the soul?
(a) The time when his wife died
(b) A post-opiate after-dream
(c) The time he learned he had to leave his home that he loved
(d) The time when his oldest child died

5. The throngs in the song laugh, but what do they not do anymore?
(a) Sing
(b) Smile
(c) Dance
(d) Curtsy

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the night?

2. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?

3. How does the hero finally get into the dwelling?

4. Which work of Swedenborg's does the narrator mention?

5. What is one thing the narrator say Usher suffers from intensely?

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