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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 does Lady Madeline do the same evening as the arrival of the narrator?
(a) Go out for a ride and not return
(b) Paint a dark, bleak picture of the house of Usher
(c) Take to her bed and not get up
(d) Leave to go visit a cousin

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

3. What does the narrator perceive under the mass of cloud vapors?
(a) Faces of demons
(b) Flying objects
(c) An unnatural glow
(d) A rainbow

4. How does the narrator describe the small pond near the house?
(a) Clear and cold
(b) Like a mirror
(c) Green and tepid
(d) Black and lurid

5. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?
(a) By a letter penned by Usher's cousin
(b) By gossip among classmates
(c) By the doctor, whom the narrator encounters in town before riding to the house of Usher
(d) By Usher's letter to the narrator

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to describe the hours he spends with Usher?

2. What does Usher as the narrator after a few moments of staring into space?

3. How does the narrator describe the House of Usher?

4. What does the narrator say has occurred nearby?

5. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?

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