Q 01/05

On the final night, what truth about his sister does Roderick Usher confess he has known for days?

A) He poisoned her medicine

B) She fled the house

C) She was buried alive

D) She faked her illness

Answer · why

C) She was buried alive

She was buried alive, and Roderick admits he heard her first feeble movements in the coffin days earlier but dared not speak.

Q 02/05

Into what dark body of water do the ruins of the House of Usher sink in Poe's final sentence?

A) A tarn

B) A moat

C) A river

D) The sea

Answer · why

A) A tarn

A tarn, a small mountain lake, lies beside the mansion from the first paragraph, where the narrator studies the scene's upside-down reflection in it a...

Q 03/05

At Madeline Usher's coffin, what does the narrator learn that she and Roderick are?

A) Cousins

B) Twins

C) Orphans

D) In-laws

Answer · why

B) Twins

Twins, Roderick murmurs, adding that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them. The narrator has only just noticed ...

Q 04/05

In Poe's tale, what kills Roderick Usher at the climax, a death he had long predicted for himself?

A) Strangulation

B) A stab wound

C) Falling masonry

D) Sheer fright

Answer · why

D) Sheer fright

Sheer fright does it: the narrator calls Roderick a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. Roger Corman's 1960 film has him throttled instead.

Q 05/05

Which bird is the most notable form taken by the shape-shifting Verna in Netflix's House of Usher series?

A) A raven

B) An owl

C) A vulture

D) A magpie

Answer · why

A) A raven

A raven is hidden in her name, since Verna is an anagram of the word. She takes many forms as she preys on the Ushers.