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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Lady Madeline had baffled her physicians?
(a) Why she has refused to leave her brother
(b) Her apparent robust health in face of what her brother is suffering
(c) Why she refuses medicine that would cure her
(d) What is wrong with her health

2. Upon what does the narrator blame what happens the eighth night after Madeline's death?
(a) The vision of Madeline as they looked at her in the coffin
(b) Too much wine for dinner
(c) The lack of Usher's faith
(d) The gloomy room furnishings

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

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

5. What does the narrator often call Usher?
(a) Eccentric
(b) Hypochondriac
(c) Misguided
(d) Sadistic

6. What does the narrator say is "stern, deep, and irredeemable"?
(a) The look on the master's face
(b) The look on the faces of the master's uncle
(c) The condemnation that pervades the air in the room
(d) The gloom that pervades the air in the room

7. What is one of the Usher's favorite volumes that the narrator and Usher read?
(a) Journey into the Blue Distance
(b) Subterranean Voyage
(c) Directorium Inquisitorium
(d) City of the Sun

8. 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

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

10. Upon what do the clouds press according to the narrator?
(a) The gates of hell
(b) The bog and tarn
(c) His own fears
(d) The turrets of the house

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

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

13. What does the hero of Trist find instead of the hermit?
(a) A crow
(b) A dragon
(c) An eagle
(d) A cat

14. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About African Satrys
(b) About the death of Christ
(c) About the Illuminati
(d) About the Egyptian afterlife

15. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?
(a) The caterpillar's preference for plants
(b) The wild flowers
(c) The fungus on the walls of the house
(d) The grasses in the meadows

Short Answer Questions

1. What deficiency does the narrator note about the Usher family ancestry?

2. What does the narrator offer to read to Usher?

3. What does the narrator say has occurred nearby?

4. What does Lady Madeline do the same evening as the arrival of the narrator?

5. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised

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