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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 the creature guarding?
(a) A palace of gold
(b) A book
(c) Pandora's box
(d) The elixir of youth

2. What does the narrator say he could not remake into something better?
(a) His idea of his future employment
(b) The reason he has come to the House of Usher
(c) The cast of gloom coming from the House of Usher
(d) The prospects of no work

3. What does the narrator have to ride over to approach near the house?
(a) A shallow stream
(b) A wooden bridge of several haphazard planks
(c) A covered bridge wide enough for three carriages to ride abreast
(d) A short causeway

4. For what does Usher think his sister will upbraid him?
(a) His weak constitution
(b) For being hasty
(c) His belief in the goodness of God
(d) His desire to keep her body from the physician

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's response to the sounds?

2. What does the narrator do with his horse?

3. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?

4. What deficiency does the narrator note about the Usher family ancestry?

5. What does Usher admit in a lucid moment concerning his gloomy outlook?

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