Poe's Fall of the House of Usher

How do the narrator and Roderick know each other?

• neighbors

• distant relatives

• boyhood companions

• doctor & patient

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Who does not speak one line throughout the story?

• Usher
• Lady Madeline
• the narrator 

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the narrator learns that Lady Madeline is

• suffering catalepsy

• Roderick Usher's twin sister

• Roderick's only living relative

• All of the above

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While scrutinizing the landscape outside the House of Usher, the narrator notices

• A barely perceptible fissure

• Fungi

• Long eye-like windows

• A dark and damp vault

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When Madeline dies, where do Roderick and the narrator bury her?

• In a coffin

• in the vault

• in the backyard

• in the tarn

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During the howling storm, who strangely and suddenly appears in the doorway?

• a long lost school friend of Roderick's and the narrator
• Madeline
• Roderick
• the narrator

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Roderick Usher appears to be suffering from

• a morbid acuteness of the senses

• a mysterious malady

• nervous agitation

• an irrational fear

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Roderick's prediction that he will die of fear comes true during the storm when

• the door swings open

• Madeline appears in her bloody robe

• the house finally collapses

• the tarn swallowed the house

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After the last Usher has perished, the narrator runs out of the house, looks back, sees the crack in the house widen, and then what occurs?

• the clouds disappear and the sun comes out
• the house sinks into the tarn
• the house catches on fire
• he waves goodbye to the servants as he leaves 

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What is "the remarkable fact "concerning the Usher family?

• It is originally from Romania.

• It possesses royal blood

• It lies entirely in the direct line of descent

• Every member has gone insane

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