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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Usher try to overcome in the presence of the narrator according to the narrator?
(a) Usher's nervous agitation
(b) The resentment Usher had always held toward the narrator for the narrator's superior mind
(c) The rancor the two men felt when they last parted
(d) The sorrow Usher felt when the narrator's sister rejected his marriage proposal

3. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?
(a) By gossip among classmates
(b) By Usher's letter to the narrator
(c) By the doctor, whom the narrator encounters in town before riding to the house of Usher
(d) By a letter penned by Usher's cousin

4. What does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?
(a) The story of his parents' individual deaths
(b) His fascination with his sister's illness.
(c) Gossip about their fellow students.
(d) Darkness from Usher's mind

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

6. How does the narrator describe the clouds?
(a) There were no clouds in sight
(b) Dense and low
(c) Thin and wispy
(d) Stacked to the heavens

7. For what place does the narrator say the atmosphere of the House of Usher has no affinity?
(a) Purgatory
(b) Eden
(c) Hell
(d) Heaven

8. How does Usher die?
(a) He jumps out of the window
(b) The narrator kills him by accident
(c) He dies of fright
(d) His sister kills him with a knife

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

10. Who wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?
(a) Homer
(b) Canning
(c) Longfellow
(d) Wordsworth

11. How does the narrator describe the window panes?
(a) As being trellised
(b) As being glazed in thick lead
(c) As being dirty
(d) As being enclosed in splintered wood

12. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?
(a) That it is Usher at whom he is looking
(b) That Usher has ever been out of the house since arriving home several years ago
(c) That Usher wants rescuing
(d) That Usher is among the living

13. Who does Usher say is dying?
(a) His cousin
(b) His mother
(c) His sister
(d) His brother

14. In what was much of the vault beneath the narrator's apartments sheathed?
(a) Wood
(b) Iron
(c) Copper
(d) Stone

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?

2. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?

3. What does the narrator say about Usher's countenance after Madeline dies?

4. What superstitious impression chains Usher?

5. What type of energy does the narrator believe Usher's chin shows?

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