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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 is the narrator's response to the sounds?
(a) He decides to leave the next morning
(b) He prays for guidance
(c) He laughs
(d) He gets up and gets dressed

2. What else had prepared the narrator for Usher's appearance?
(a) By knowing what had happened to Usher's father
(b) A letter penned by Usher's sister
(c) Remembering a prophesy by a gypsy woman
(d) Remembering certain things about Usher as a child

3. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About the death of Christ
(b) About African Satrys
(c) About the Illuminati
(d) About the Egyptian afterlife

4. What does Usher admit in a lucid moment concerning his gloomy outlook?
(a) It is probably because of his sister's absence for the past several months
(b) It is probably due to his severe and long-standing illness
(c) It is probably because he has not gone anywhere for a while
(d) It is probably due to the extreme overcast weather of late

5. Upon what do the clouds press according to the narrator?
(a) The gates of hell
(b) The turrets of the house
(c) His own fears
(d) The bog and tarn

Short Answer Questions

1. What appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?

2. What is one of the Usher's favorite volumes that the narrator and Usher read?

3. What does the narrator say is "cadaverously wan"?

4. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?

5. What fell down at the feet of the hero?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the narrator on his way to the House of Usher?

2. How does Roderick explain his invitation to a visit by the narrator?

3. What does the narrator do in response to his feelings of unease and who joins him?

4. For what purpose and when was the vault used in previous times?

5. 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?

6. How does the narrator describe Roderick's appearance?

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

8. What is the only instrument Roderick can tolerate hearing?

9. What do the narrator and Roderick do for one last time before placing Madeline's coffin in the vault?

10. What does Roderick seem to vacillate between?

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