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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. Why does Usher want to wait a fortnight?
(a) The moon will be full again
(b) Usher is suspicious of the physicians' motives
(c) His cousin will have returned for the funeral
(d) His sister was greatly loved and many people will want to pay their respects

2. What does the narrator often call Usher?
(a) Eccentric
(b) Sadistic
(c) Hypochondriac
(d) Misguided

3. What does the narrator say is "cadaverously wan"?
(a) The light outside the window
(b) The face of the servant that comes in behind Usher
(c) The glow of the lantern
(d) Usher's countenance

4. To what does the narrator say Usher seems to be listening?
(a) Imaginary sounds
(b) Music from the drawing room
(c) Pleas from the physicians who want Usher to accept sedation
(d) Usher's own sense of distorted reality

5. What does the narrator say is the cause of his initial impression and feelings as he approaches the House of Usher?
(a) The desire to do well in his new employment
(b) The knowledge that his best friend has died in that house
(c) A combination of how the entire outside of the house and grounds appeared
(d) A combination of his trepidation about his new job and being recently widowed

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like that night?

2. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?

3. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?

4. What does the narrator notice about Madeline when he and Usher are staring at her in the coffin?

5. Upon what do the clouds press according to the narrator?

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