Characters
Setting
Problem
Comprehension
Vocabulary
100
What is the man's name who is sick?
Roderick Usher
100
Where was Usher when he was sick?
His family mansion
100
What was wrong with Usher?
He was sick.
100
How many days passed before the house got destroyed?
8 days
100
With the mind, or brain.
Mental
200
Who is Usher's sister?
Madeline
200
Was the house full of scary lights? Or was it dark and creepy?
Dark and Creepy!
200
Who was making all the noises the night of the storm?
Madeline's ghost.
200
How did Madeline's death make Usher feel?
He was sad. He got more sick.
200
To be very sad
Depressing
300
Who is Usher's best friend?
The Narrator
300
What was directly underneath the narrator's bedroom?
The dungeon.
300
After the storm, how did the house get destroyed?
The water from the moat swallowed the house.
300
Why would Usher not leave the mansion?.
He was afraid of the lights and noises
300
Very strange. (2 answers)
Peculiar Bizarre
400
Use a vocabulary word to describe the narrator's feelings throughout the story.
Anxious Anxiety Dispair
400
After Madeline passed away, they put her body in the family ______.
Vault
400
What bizarre thought did Usher have about the house?
He thought the stone walls were alive- they were arranged like a family.
400
Why did everyone in Usher's family get sick and die in the mansion?
The mansion made them sick.
400
To worry and be very nervous.
Anxiety
500
What kind of disease did Usher and Madeline have?
Mental Disease
500
What surrounded the house that made it hard for people to enter?
The dark moat filled with sluggish water.
500
The storm began on what night?
The 8th night.
500
Who wrote "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
Edgar Allan Poe
500
Being very unhappy and having no hope.
Despair