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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 sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?
(a) Painting and reading
(b) Playing the harpsichord and singing
(c) Fencing and fox hunting
(d) Wild boar hunting

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

3. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?
(a) Nothing
(b) The same sound his imagination conjured in reading the book
(c) Someone else reading the same story in another part of the house
(d) A voice saying, You die.

4. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?
(a) They were naked
(b) Robes of white and gold
(c) Robes of crimson death
(d) Robes of sorrow

5. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised
(a) The paeans to his ancestral lineage
(b) The fighting songs the two sang together
(c) Usher's harangues against the gods
(d) Usher's dirges

Short Answer Questions

1. Into whose dwelling is the hero of Trist trying to enter?

2. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?

3. What does the narrator say is the cause of his initial impression and feelings as he approaches the House of Usher?

4. How does the narrator describe the night?

5. What was the duty of the Echoes in the song?

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