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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?
(a) A bolt hole
(b) Storing food
(c) Storing scrolls
(d) Torture and imprisonment

2. Where is the narrator first conducted when he enters the house of Usher?
(a) The dining room
(b) The room where he would be staying
(c) The master's studio
(d) The gardens

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

4. What does the narrator hear through the noises of the storm?
(a) Low and indefinite sounds
(b) Horses galloping
(c) Screaming
(d) A trumpet blowing

5. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?
(a) The narrator is uncomfortable but also any company is a relief
(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 unhappy

6. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?
(a) Playing the harpsichord and singing
(b) Fencing and fox hunting
(c) Wild boar hunting
(d) Painting and reading

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

8. What does the narrator say is the cause of his initial impression and feelings as he approaches the House of Usher?
(a) The knowledge that his best friend has died in that house
(b) A combination of how the entire outside of the house and grounds appeared
(c) A combination of his trepidation about his new job and being recently widowed
(d) The desire to do well in his new employment

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

10. Between what two poles does Usher's actions alternate?
(a) Vivaciousness and sullenness
(b) Childish delight and scorn
(c) Begging and condescension
(d) Kindness and cruelty

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

12. 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

13. What does the narrator say about Vigiliæ Mortuorum Secundum Chorum Ecclesiæ Maguntinæ?
(a) It was Usher's uncle's guide
(b) It is Usher's chief delight to read
(c) It is Madeline's favorite, but Usher abhors it
(d) Usher refuses to read it

14. What is one word the author uses to describe the furniture?
(a) Well maintained
(b) Comfortless
(c) Fragile
(d) Comfortable

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What bewilders the narrator as he listens to Usher speak of his problem?

2. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?

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

4. What is the source of the lighting in the painting the narrator describes?

5. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?

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