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The Fall of the House of Usher Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the light coming through the windows?
(a) Dark green
(b) Rainbow colored
(c) Crimson
(d) Bright blue

2. How does the narrator feel when Usher's sister comes through the apartment where Usher and the narrator are?
(a) Admiration
(b) Dread
(c) Spiteful
(d) Tongue-tied

3. What does the narrator say about Usher after they had placed Madeline's coffin in the vault below the narrator's apartments?
(a) Usher burned all his paintings of Madeline
(b) Usher did very little but wander from room to room
(c) Usher actually smiled a few times
(d) Usher seemed more at peace

4. Of what texture is Usher's hair?
(a) Coarse
(b) Wirily
(c) Web-like softness
(d) Chopped

5. What does the narrator do with his horse?
(a) Turns it loose in the pasture
(b) Hands it over to a servant
(c) Unsaddles and grooms it and leaves it in a stall
(d) Ties it to a post

6. What does the narrator say is inaccessible in the room to which he is shown?
(a) The books on the upper bookcases
(b) The windows
(c) The paintings of former generations of the Usher family
(d) The high bed

7. What effect does Usher think plants have had upon his life?
(a) They have made him what he is now
(b) They have whispered insane arguments to him and caused him anxiety
(c) They have kept him tied to the manor
(d) They have kept him alive long after he should be dead

8. How does the narrator say Usher's voice changes after Madeline dies?
(a) It has a lilt to it
(b) He never speaks above a whisper
(c) It is even more husky than it used to be
(d) It assumes a tremulous quaver

9. What is the title of the verses Usher composes that the narrator pens in the story?
(a) The Haunted Palace
(b) The Tin Palace
(c) The Thirty Years of Death
(d) The Miniature Mind

10. What is one of the Usher's favorite volumes that the narrator and Usher read?
(a) Subterranean Voyage
(b) Directorium Inquisitorium
(c) City of the Sun
(d) Journey into the Blue Distance

11. What group of people does the narrator say is suggested in Usher's nose?
(a) Hebrew
(b) Scandinavian
(c) Toltec
(d) Russia

12. What does Usher do when Madeline passes through the apartment?
(a) Jumps up and hugs her
(b) Cries
(c) Asks her to summon a servant
(d) Asks if she is well

13. What music does Usher prefer?
(a) Stringed instruments
(b) Voice
(c) The flute
(d) The harpsichord

14. About what does the narrator say Usher had always been excessive and habitual?
(a) Loyalty
(b) Affection
(c) Laxness in moral character
(d) Reserve

15. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?
(a) When the drug is almost wore off
(b) During a time when trying to quit the habit and the user is shaking in delirious confusion
(c) After the drug is worn off and the user has to eat some more
(d) During the initial time of intense excitement just after the user has had some opium

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?

2. What superstitious impression chains Usher?

3. The throngs in the song laugh, but what do they not do anymore?

4. What does the narrator say the windows of the House of Usher are like?

5. What does Usher believe about plants?

(see the answer keys)

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