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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator believe is odd about Usher's hair?
(a) That it floats around Usher's face rather than lying on the head
(b) That it is now the color of Usher's sister's hair
(c) That it is no longer the same color as it was when he and Usher were in school
(d) That it is now thin and curly when before it had been thick and straight

2. What color are the tree trunks?
(a) Brown
(b) Yellowed
(c) Grey
(d) White

3. What does the narrator think Usher is attempting to find the courage to do after Madeline has been dead for several days?
(a) Bury Madeline
(b) Leave his home and travel abroad
(c) Tell the narrator a secret
(d) Ask the narrator to live there permanently

4. How does the narrator describe the House of Usher?
(a) Tiny
(b) Homey
(c) Melancholy
(d) Airy

5. What style were Usher's paintings?
(a) Naturalistic
(b) Realistic
(c) Religious motifs
(d) Abstractions

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

7. What feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?
(a) Pity and awe
(b) Anger
(c) Terror
(d) Bitterness and curiosity

8. What does the narrator say about Usher's countenance after Madeline dies?
(a) It is more pallid than ever
(b) It is florid
(c) It starts showing a little more color
(d) It is terribly sorrowful

9. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Yellow
(b) Red
(c) Black
(d) Blue

10. What does Usher as the narrator after a few moments of staring into space?
(a) If the narrator has seen it
(b) If the narrator will go and fetch the physician
(c) If the narrator wishes to leave upon the morrow
(d) If Usher is mad

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

12. How does the narrator feel about how he is greeted?
(a) It is sad
(b) It is foreboding
(c) It is as if Usher is playing a game
(d) It is overdone

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

14. How does Usher greet the narrator?
(a) With a vivacious warmth
(b) With charmed indifference
(c) With a certain amount of cynicism
(d) With grave formality

15. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?
(a) The fact that the grounds are so well kept compared to the facade of the mansion
(b) The fact that so many individual stones are crumbling but the mansion is still quite intact
(c) The care taken with the cornices compared to the haphazard placing of the windows
(d) The bright colors of the soffit compared to the grey of the stone

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Usher want to wait a fortnight?

2. What is one of the Usher's favorite volumes that the narrator and Usher read?

3. How does the narrator describe the window panes?

4. How is Usher's skin described?

5. What happens one night when the narrator goes to bed about eight days after Madeline has died?

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