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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 the narrator describe the clouds?
(a) Thin and wispy
(b) There were no clouds in sight
(c) Dense and low
(d) Stacked to the heavens

2. What does the narrator say about Usher after they had placed Madeline's coffin in the vault below the narrator's apartments?
(a) Usher seemed more at peace
(b) Usher did very little but wander from room to room
(c) Usher burned all his paintings of Madeline
(d) Usher actually smiled a few times

3. How does the narrator describe Usher's overall countenance?
(a) As unmemorable
(b) As commonplace
(c) As not easily forgotton
(d) As noble

4. What deficiency does the narrator note about the Usher family ancestry?
(a) That it had a number of issues that were never discussed
(b) That it was speckled with other races
(c) That the entire family lay in the direct line of descent
(d) It had included persons of dubious character

5. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?
(a) A voice saying, You die.
(b) Someone else reading the same story in another part of the house
(c) The same sound his imagination conjured in reading the book
(d) Nothing

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator doing at the opening of the story?

2. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?

3. What is the "Ververt et Chartreuse"?

4. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?

5. What odors does Usher find oppressive?

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