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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 one thing the narrator says Roderick Usher writes about to him?
(a) A problem with his inheritance
(b) Grievous physical illness
(c) An upcoming marriage
(d) A legal problem
2. What does the narrator say about Vigiliæ Mortuorum Secundum Chorum Ecclesiæ Maguntinæ?
(a) It is Madeline's favorite, but Usher abhors it
(b) Usher refuses to read it
(c) It is Usher's chief delight to read
(d) It was Usher's uncle's guide
3. What feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?
(a) Anger
(b) Bitterness and curiosity
(c) Terror
(d) Pity and awe
4. For what is the light coming through the windows of the room sufficient?
(a) To avoid tripping over the furniture
(b) To observe the gaunt frame of the master of the house
(c) To distinguish many of the objects in the room
(d) To read or sew by
5. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?
(a) Bitter
(b) A drudgery
(c) A relief
(d) A lightness
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the hero of Trist find instead of the hermit?
2. What style were Usher's paintings?
3. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?
4. What does the narrator say is dangerous to Usher?
5. Besides books, what else were scattered about in the room?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator describe the vault where they lay Madeline's coffin?
2. How does the narrator describe Roderick's appearance?
3. What does the narrator say about African Satyrs and Aepipans?
4. Why is the narrator unable to shake off his feelings of uneasiness the night of the storm?
5. What does the narrator think of Roderick's ostensible reason for delaying Madeline's burial?
6. What had Roderick written to the narrator to get the narrator to come visit?
7. What does the narrator discover when he gets up and bends his ear close to Roderick's mouth?
8. How does the narrator attempt to calm Roderick?
9. What does Roderick believe he has done to Madeline?
10. What announcement does Roderick abruptly make one evening?
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