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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 spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?
(a) Moss
(b) Ivy
(c) Streaks of red
(d) Fungi

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

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

4. What word does the narrator use to describe the tapestries?
(a) Richly colored
(b) Threadbare
(c) Somber
(d) Intricately woven

5. What emotion does the narrator say is rapidly increasing as he sits aside his horse and surveys the surroundings?
(a) Distaste
(b) Optimism
(c) Superstition
(d) Anticipation

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?

4. What does Usher believe about plants?

5. What does Usher say about his relationship with his sister?

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