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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 narrator doing at the opening of the story?
(a) Writing a letter to his son
(b) Fighting in a duel
(c) Plowing
(d) Riding on horseback

2. How does the narrator describe the House of Usher?
(a) Airy
(b) Melancholy
(c) Homey
(d) Tiny

3. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised
(a) Usher's harangues against the gods
(b) Usher's dirges
(c) The fighting songs the two sang together
(d) The paeans to his ancestral lineage

4. What infects the narrator?
(a) Usher's excitement at being free to leave the estate
(b) Usher's condition
(c) A cut the narrator receives in the bog
(d) Usher's joy that his sister is free

5. What appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?
(a) Usher's desire to enlist the narrator's aid
(b) Usher's recital of a poem that makes no sense
(c) Usher's joviality
(d) Usher's general demeanor

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the hero of Trist?

2. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?

3. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?

4. What color does the narrator say are the floors in the house of Usher?

5. What happens to the trophies of armor when the narrator walks past them?

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