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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 Usher prefer his food to be?
(a) Very mild
(b) Boiling hot
(c) Very spicy since he has little ability to taste
(d) Cool almost to the point of being cold

2. From what does the narrator say his feelings about Usher must arise?
(a) His lack of knowing Rodney's family
(b) His earlier envy of Rodney's great intellect when they were in school together
(c) A dream
(d) A bit of fancy

3. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?
(a) Their name and their behavior
(b) Their family name and the family mansion
(c) Their intellect and their eccentricities
(d) Their madness and generosity

4. How does the narrator feel when he gained his first glimpse of the House of Usher?
(a) Optimistic
(b) Gloomy
(c) Anxious
(d) Hopeful

5. What does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?
(a) Gossip about their fellow students.
(b) The story of his parents' individual deaths
(c) Darkness from Usher's mind
(d) His fascination with his sister's illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is "cadaverously wan"?

2. What is the "grim phantasm"?

3. What does the narrator say has occurred nearby?

4. What does the narrator think Usher is attempting to find the courage to do after Madeline has been dead for several days?

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

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