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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 see when he looks in Usher's eyes?
(a) Hope
(b) A strange calmness
(c) Overwhelming grief
(d) Mad hilarity

2. 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 a letter penned by Usher's cousin
(c) By Usher's letter to the narrator
(d) By gossip among classmates

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

4. 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 parents were first cousins, so family resemblance is strong
(d) Their father's genes were particularly strong in both of them

5. How does the narrator feel about how he is greeted?
(a) It is overdone
(b) It is sad
(c) It is as if Usher is playing a game
(d) It is foreboding

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

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

8. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It is left to rot
(b) It burns down
(c) It is hurled into the heavens
(d) It sinks into the tarn

9. What type of energy does the narrator believe Usher's chin shows?
(a) Goal-oriented
(b) Moral
(c) Robust
(d) Filial

10. How does the narrator describe the House of Usher?
(a) Airy
(b) Tiny
(c) Homey
(d) Melancholy

11. What is one thing the narrator say Usher suffers from intensely?
(a) A morbid acuteness of the senses
(b) A childlike and dangerous belief in the unseen
(c) Poor nutrition
(d) Wrongful beliefs

12. How does Usher greet the narrator?
(a) With charmed indifference
(b) With a certain amount of cynicism
(c) With a vivacious warmth
(d) With grave formality

13. What is the creature guarding?
(a) The elixir of youth
(b) Pandora's box
(c) A palace of gold
(d) A book

14. How does the narrator know Usher is not asleep?
(a) Usher is pacing even though his eyes are closed
(b) Usher is humming
(c) Usher is mumbling to himself
(d) Usher's eyes are wide open

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator feel when he gained his first glimpse of the House of Usher?

2. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?

3. What does Usher try to overcome in the presence of the narrator according to the narrator?

4. What is the narrator's response to the sounds?

5. How does the narrator describe the night?

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