The Fall of the House of Usher Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Fall of the House of Usher Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?
(a) Fungi
(b) Ivy
(c) Moss
(d) Streaks of red

2. How does Usher die?
(a) He dies of fright
(b) He jumps out of the window
(c) His sister kills him with a knife
(d) The narrator kills him by accident

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

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

5. What effect does Usher think plants have had upon his life?
(a) They have kept him alive long after he should be dead
(b) They have kept him tied to the manor
(c) They have whispered insane arguments to him and caused him anxiety
(d) They have made him what he is now

6. What appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?
(a) Usher's recital of a poem that makes no sense
(b) Usher's desire to enlist the narrator's aid
(c) Usher's general demeanor
(d) Usher's joviality

7. What infects the narrator?
(a) Usher's condition
(b) Usher's excitement at being free to leave the estate
(c) Usher's joy that his sister is free
(d) A cut the narrator receives in the bog

8. How does the narrator describe the night?
(a) Beautiful though stern
(b) Torpid
(c) Serene
(d) Deceptive

9. What music does Usher prefer?
(a) The flute
(b) The harpsichord
(c) Voice
(d) Stringed instruments

10. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?
(a) The feeling of peace pervading the scene
(b) The screeching sounds
(c) The electrical phenomena
(d) The sounds of moaning

11. What does the narrator say the windows of the House of Usher are like?
(a) Ship portals
(b) Eyes
(c) Dilapidated
(d) Mirrors

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

13. What does Usher fear about Madeline?
(a) That she hated Usher
(b) That she was attacked by demons
(c) That she was still alive when put in her coffin
(d) That she was terrified at the moment of her death

14. What does Usher say about the similarity between he and his sister's appearance?
(a) Their father'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 mother's genes were particularly strong in both of them

15. Of what does the narrator say the atmosphere reeks?
(a) Sadness
(b) Evil
(c) Decayed trees and grey walls
(d) Lethargy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do with his horse?

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

3. What superstitious impression chains Usher?

4. What does the narrator have to ride over to approach near the house?

5. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?

(see the answer keys)

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