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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the narrator as he lies in bed the eighth night after Madeline's death?
(a) He prays and sees a light from the heavens
(b) He imagines his mother calling him
(c) A blanket of utter terror falls upon his heart
(d) He is assaulted by one of the serving lads

2. What is one word the narrator uses to describe the book he picks up to read?
(a) Uncouth
(b) Prosy
(c) Charming
(d) Enlightening

3. What does the hero of Trist believe himself to be?
(a) The slayer of the serpent
(b) The defender of the weak
(c) The new guardian of the hermitage
(d) The champion of the brazen shield

4. Who does Usher say is dying?
(a) His sister
(b) His brother
(c) His cousin
(d) His mother

5. Why does Usher want to wait a fortnight?
(a) The moon will be full again
(b) His cousin will have returned for the funeral
(c) His sister was greatly loved and many people will want to pay their respects
(d) Usher is suspicious of the physicians' motives

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator think he should read out loud to Usher?

2. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?

3. What is the setting of the picture the narrator describes?

4. How does the narrator describe the clouds?

5. What does Usher do after shading his lamp's light?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one picture Roderick painted that the narrator describes and says it is not as abstract as the others?

2. Why does the narrator think the vault was used in more recent times to store gunpowder?

3. Who does the narrator meet on the stairs and what is the narrator's impression of the person?

4. What had Roderick's sister, up to the narrator's arrive, resisted, but how does that change after the narrator arrives at the house of Usher?

5. When does the narrator find he is unable to sleep and upon what does he blame that fact?

6. What is Roderick's response to Madeline falling upon him?

7. What does Roderick say drives him to despair?

8. What does the narrator do when he realizes that both twins are dead?

9. What does Roderick seem to vacillate between?

10. With what is the narrator impressed concerning Roderick?

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