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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What emotion does the narrator say is rapidly increasing as he sits aside his horse and surveys the surroundings?
(a) Distaste
(b) Superstition
(c) Anticipation
(d) Optimism

3. Which work of Swedenborg's does the narrator mention?
(a) The White Horse
(b) The Last Judgment
(c) Doctrine of Life
(d) Heaven and Hell

4. Who leads the narrator through the house?
(a) The valet
(b) No one; he goes himself
(c) The cook
(d) The narrator's friend's sister

5. What does Usher believe about plants?
(a) They are sentient
(b) They have no value
(c) They are the only thing one should eat
(d) They are insidious

6. What does the narrator say he often finds Usher doing?
(a) Talking to Madeline as if she were still alive
(b) Singing a lullaby to Madeline
(c) Cutting his arms
(d) Staring off into space for hours at a time

7. What does the narrator say Usher must not do?
(a) Go outside
(b) Go back to his room
(c) Look outside
(d) Go down to his sister's coffin

8. What does Lady Madeline do the same evening as the arrival of the narrator?
(a) Leave to go visit a cousin
(b) Take to her bed and not get up
(c) Paint a dark, bleak picture of the house of Usher
(d) Go out for a ride and not return

9. How does Usher react to bright light?
(a) His eyes are tortured by it
(b) He likes it for painting
(c) He hates it because he can see himself in the mirror
(d) He likes it to play with his crystals

10. What are the trees like that are in the yard?
(a) Decaying
(b) Blooming
(c) Newly-planted
(d) Heavily leafed

11. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?
(a) The screeching sounds
(b) The feeling of peace pervading the scene
(c) The electrical phenomena
(d) The sounds of moaning

12. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?
(a) The ways Madeline continually impinged upon their time
(b) The horror at being trapped with a madman
(c) Exactly what the two did during the time
(d) The sorrow at failing to cheer his friend

13. What is the source of the lighting in the painting the narrator describes?
(a) A fire
(b) The sun
(c) The narrator is uncertain of the source
(d) A comet

14. What does the narrator see when he looks in Usher's eyes?
(a) Overwhelming grief
(b) A strange calmness
(c) Mad hilarity
(d) Hope

15. How does the narrator describe Usher's demeanor?
(a) Confident
(b) Aggressive
(c) Restrained hysteria
(d) Cautious

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the tree trunks?

2. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?

3. What odors does Usher find oppressive?

4. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?

5. What music does Usher prefer?

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