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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 is Usher's skin described?
(a) Ruddy
(b) An upper-class paleness
(c) Flushed
(d) A ghastly pallor
2. How does the narrator describe the small pond near the house?
(a) Like a mirror
(b) Black and lurid
(c) Green and tepid
(d) Clear and cold
3. What is the impact of Usher's condition on the narrator?
(a) It saddens the narrator
(b) It makes the narrator want to remove Usher from the premises
(c) It terrifies the narrator
(d) It mystifies the narrator
4. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?
(a) The fact that so many individual stones are crumbling but the mansion is still quite intact
(b) The bright colors of the soffit compared to the grey of the stone
(c) The fact that the grounds are so well kept compared to the facade of the mansion
(d) The care taken with the cornices compared to the haphazard placing of the windows
5. What color does the narrator say are the floors in the house of Usher?
(a) Red carpet
(b) White terrazzo
(c) Ebony
(d) Light oak
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
2. What startles the narrator as he reads one part of Trist?
3. What does the narrator say Usher must not do?
4. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?
5. What does Usher believe about plants?
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