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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 happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It burns down
(b) It sinks into the tarn
(c) It is left to rot
(d) It is hurled into the heavens

2. What does Usher say about the similarity between he and his sister's appearance?
(a) Their father's genes were particularly strong in both of them
(b) They are twins
(c) Their parents were first cousins, so family resemblance is strong
(d) Their mother's genes were particularly strong in both of them

3. How does Usher greet the narrator?
(a) With a vivacious warmth
(b) With charmed indifference
(c) With grave formality
(d) With a certain amount of cynicism

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

5. How does the narrator describe the night?
(a) Torpid
(b) Beautiful though stern
(c) Serene
(d) Deceptive

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?

2. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?

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

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

5. What are the trees like that are in the yard?

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