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

2. What else had prepared the narrator for Usher's appearance?
(a) Remembering certain things about Usher as a child
(b) By knowing what had happened to Usher's father
(c) Remembering a prophesy by a gypsy woman
(d) A letter penned by Usher's sister

3. What color is the light coming through the windows?
(a) Crimson
(b) Rainbow colored
(c) Bright blue
(d) Dark green

4. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?
(a) A relief
(b) A lightness
(c) A drudgery
(d) Bitter

5. What happens to the trophies of armor when the narrator walks past them?
(a) Nothing
(b) They bow
(c) They rattle
(d) They light up

6. What is the source of the lighting in the painting the narrator describes?
(a) The sun
(b) A fire
(c) The narrator is uncertain of the source
(d) A comet

7. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?
(a) Robes of white and gold
(b) Robes of crimson death
(c) They were naked
(d) Robes of sorrow

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

9. What does the narrator note about the mansion's walls?
(a) Some walls are crumbling and some are not
(b) The walls are pitted by deer shot
(c) They have recently been repaired
(d) The walls are covered in pictographs

10. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?
(a) He does not announce it; he lets the narrator learn of it when the narrator goes to visit Madeline
(b) Abruptly
(c) He has the physician tell the narrator
(d) He sings her a dirge

11. What is the narrator's response to the sounds?
(a) He prays for guidance
(b) He gets up and gets dressed
(c) He decides to leave the next morning
(d) He laughs

12. What deficiency does the narrator note about the Usher family ancestry?
(a) That it had a number of issues that were never discussed
(b) It had included persons of dubious character
(c) That it was speckled with other races
(d) That the entire family lay in the direct line of descent

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

14. What does Usher say about the similarity between he and his sister's appearance?
(a) Their mother's genes were particularly strong in both of them
(b) They are twins
(c) Their father's genes were particularly strong in both of them
(d) Their parents were first cousins, so family resemblance is strong

15. What happens one night when the narrator goes to bed about eight days after Madeline has died?
(a) Usher moans all night
(b) The house shakes as if in an earthquake
(c) The doors and windows open and close on their own
(d) The narrator suffers all night with fits of nervousness

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What music does Usher prefer?

4. What does the narrator say Usher must not do?

5. What does the narrator say is the cause of his initial impression and feelings as he approaches the House of Usher?

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