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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?
(a) The narrator orders Usher to leave
(b) The narrator is glad to know it is not Usher who his moaning
(c) The narrator is uncomfortable but also any company is a relief
(d) The narrator is unhappy

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

3. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?
(a) A placid life
(b) Being abandoned by all
(c) Terror
(d) Being misunderstood

4. How does the narrator describe the night?
(a) Serene
(b) Beautiful though stern
(c) Deceptive
(d) Torpid

5. What does the narrator perceive under the mass of cloud vapors?
(a) An unnatural glow
(b) A rainbow
(c) Faces of demons
(d) Flying objects

6. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
(a) A demon with Madeline's features confined in chains
(b) Many demons feasting
(c) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(d) A vault of low walls

7. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?
(a) Their madness and generosity
(b) Their intellect and their eccentricities
(c) Their family name and the family mansion
(d) Their name and their behavior

8. What does Usher say he dreads?
(a) Losing his mind
(b) Events in the future
(c) The past being uncovered
(d) His sister suffering because of him

9. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?
(a) Only the same night
(b) He wants to have the body lie in state in the church for three days
(c) A fortnight
(d) He wants to burn the body

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

11. What does the narrator say is the principal feature of the Usher mansion upon closer inspection?
(a) Pretension
(b) Ostentatious detail
(c) Excessive antiquity
(d) Ornate gables

12. Who is the hero of Trist?
(a) Nathan
(b) Ethelred
(c) Mandred
(d) Trist

13. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It sinks into the tarn
(b) It burns down
(c) It is left to rot
(d) It is hurled into the heavens

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

15. What is one word the narrator uses to describe the book he picks up to read?
(a) Enlightening
(b) Uncouth
(c) Charming
(d) Prosy

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Usher think plants have had upon his life?

2. What was the duty of the Echoes in the song?

3. What does the narrator often call Usher?

4. Why does the narrator think he should read out loud to Usher?

5. What is the creature guarding?

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