Fall of the House of Usher

What is "the remarkable fact" concerning the House of Usher?

• It is originally from Romania

• It posses royal blood

• it lies entirely in the direct line of descent

• every member has left

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What happens in the closing scene of the story?

• Madeline appears

• Roderick collapses

• the house collapses

• all of the above

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What is our narrator's name?

• Alexander

• Usher

• Roderick

• We're not told

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What is our narrator's relation to Roderick usher?

• Childhood best friends

• Cousins

• They went to college together

• Brothers-in-law

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What was Roderick's fear for when his sister dies?

• He would be the last Usher

• He would have to move out

• He would never be able to be rid of his illness

• He would be killed by her zombie

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Following her death and shortly before entombment, we find out that Roderick and Madeline were actually

• Not related

• Cousins

• Twins

• Father and daughter

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What did the narrator notice when he helped place Madeline's body in the tomb?

• Her eyes were open

• Her cheeks were rosy

• She was still breathing

• Her body smelled horribly

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Who is the author of "The Fall of the House of Usher"?

• Stephen King

• Julio Cortázar

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Sparky Sweets

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How do you properly cite the title of the text?

• the fall of the house of usher

• The Fall of the House of Usher

• "The Fall OF The House OF Usher"

• "The Fall of the House of Usher"

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Which of the following contains the Gothic literature element of a damsel in distress (a woman who is suffering from imprisonment or sickness)?

• "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback" (par.1)

• "The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians." (par.14)

• "An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm." (par.31)

• "While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened—there came a fierce breath of whirlwind—the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight" (par.48)

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