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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator unable to see in the room?
(a) The fact that there was someone else in the room besides his friend
(b) The colors of the tapestries
(c) The recesses of the ceiling
(d) The expression on his friend's face

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

3. Why does the narrator think he should read out loud to Usher?
(a) To distract the narrator from the moaning sounds
(b) To keep the narrator from dashing outside.
(c) It will have a calming effect
(d) To lighten the narrator's mood

4. What word does the narrator use to describe the tapestries?
(a) Richly colored
(b) Intricately woven
(c) Somber
(d) Threadbare

5. What does the narrator say is inaccessible in the room to which he is shown?
(a) The books on the upper bookcases
(b) The windows
(c) The paintings of former generations of the Usher family
(d) The high bed

6. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?
(a) Mercurial
(b) Placid
(c) Sanguine
(d) Artistic

7. What does the narrator say overtakes him as he watches Lady Madeline leave?
(a) The desire to run out of the house
(b) The desire to save her
(c) Stupor
(d) Embarrassment

8. After glancing at Usher, what does the narrator believe about the way in which Usher welcomes him?
(a) It is feigned
(b) It is sincere
(c) It is practiced
(d) It is confusing

9. How does the hero finally get into the dwelling?
(a) Coaxing
(b) Magic
(c) He doesn't get in
(d) By force

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

11. Of what texture is Usher's hair?
(a) Wirily
(b) Coarse
(c) Web-like softness
(d) Chopped

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

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

14. Where is the ruler in the early part of the song the narrator records?
(a) There is no ruler
(b) Drowned in a river
(c) On his chariot
(d) On his throne

15. What was the duty of the Echoes in the song?
(a) To drive the ruler mad
(b) To sing of the wit and wisdom of their king
(c) To remind all of the light
(d) To calm the agitated soul

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say has changed in Usher in a short period of time?

2. What are the trees like that are in the yard?

3. What does Usher admit in a lucid moment concerning his gloomy outlook?

4. What does Roderick Usher hope will happen through a visit by the narrator?

5. What about Lady Madeline had baffled her physicians?

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