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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 is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
(a) Many demons feasting
(b) A demon with Madeline's features confined in chains
(c) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(d) A vault of low walls

2. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?
(a) Usher's own
(b) Von Weber
(c) Mozart
(d) Strauss

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

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

5. Who wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?
(a) Longfellow
(b) Canning
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Homer

Short Answer Questions

1. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?

2. What does the narrator offer to read to Usher?

3. What is one word the author uses to describe the furniture?

4. How does the narrator feel when Usher's sister comes through the apartment where Usher and the narrator are?

5. The throngs in the song laugh, but what do they not do anymore?

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