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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 music does Usher prefer?
(a) The flute
(b) Voice
(c) The harpsichord
(d) Stringed instruments
2. What does the narrator realize the closer he becomes to Usher?
(a) Usher only wants to cause the narrator discomfort
(b) It is futile to try to cheer Usher
(c) Usher is faking his problems
(d) Usher is not as bad off as the narrator first believes
3. For what is the light coming through the windows of the room sufficient?
(a) To read or sew by
(b) To observe the gaunt frame of the master of the house
(c) To avoid tripping over the furniture
(d) To distinguish many of the objects in the room
4. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?
(a) The care taken with the cornices compared to the haphazard placing of the windows
(b) The fact that so many individual stones are crumbling but the mansion is still quite intact
(c) The fact that the grounds are so well kept compared to the facade of the mansion
(d) The bright colors of the soffit compared to the grey of the stone
5. What word does the narrator use to describe the hours he spends with Usher?
(a) Peaceful
(b) Solemn
(c) Frightful
(d) Lazy
Short Answer Questions
1. What word does the narrator use to describe the tapestries?
2. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?
3. To what does the narrator say Usher seems to be listening?
4. How does Usher react to bright light?
5. What does the narrator say is "cadaverously wan"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the men like the book the narrator reads and what surprises the narrator about Roderick's response to the book?
2. What does the narrator say about Roderick's usual habits after Madeline dies?
3. When does the narrator find he is unable to sleep and upon what does he blame that fact?
4. What type of struggle is going on within Roderick?
5. One is one topic of discussion between the narrator and Roderick that arises from the singing of Roderick's song, "The Haunted Palace"?
6. What is Roderick's response to Madeline falling upon him?
7. What does Roderick say drives him to despair?
8. Who is at the door when it flies open and what does the person do?
9. What seems to be happening in "real" time as the narrator reads?
10. What does the narrator discover when he gets up and bends his ear close to Roderick's mouth?
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