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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 the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?
(a) That Usher wants rescuing
(b) That it is Usher at whom he is looking
(c) That Usher has ever been out of the house since arriving home several years ago
(d) That Usher is among the living

2. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?
(a) Being misunderstood
(b) A placid life
(c) Being abandoned by all
(d) Terror

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

4. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About African Satrys
(b) About the death of Christ
(c) About the Egyptian afterlife
(d) About the Illuminati

5. What does the narrator say about the archway that leads into the hall?
(a) There was no archway
(b) It was of Gothic architecture
(c) It had slimy vines hanging from it
(d) It was newly repaired

Short Answer Questions

1. What bewilders the narrator as he listens to Usher speak of his problem?

2. What word does the narrator use to describe the tapestries?

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

4. Of what texture is Usher's hair?

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

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