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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?
(a) Von Weber
(b) Usher's own
(c) Strauss
(d) Mozart

2. What is Usher carrying as he knocks on the narrator's door?
(a) A book
(b) A sword
(c) A lantern
(d) A Bible

3. Who does the narrator meet on one of the staircases?
(a) A young boy
(b) Another good friend who went to school with the narrator and Usher
(c) The master of the house
(d) The family physician

4. Who does Usher say is dying?
(a) His cousin
(b) His mother
(c) His brother
(d) His sister

5. What odors does Usher find oppressive?
(a) The scent from flowers
(b) The smell of women's perfume
(c) The odor from the dog
(d) The odor of cooked meat

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

7. Who wrote the book that the narrator picks up to soothe Usher?
(a) Canning
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Longfellow
(d) Homer

8. What does the narrator offer to read to Usher?
(a) The Bible
(b) "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
(c) An epic poem by Homer
(d) One of Usher's favorite romances

9. What does the narrator say he often finds Usher doing?
(a) Singing a lullaby to Madeline
(b) Talking to Madeline as if she were still alive
(c) Staring off into space for hours at a time
(d) Cutting his arms

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

11. What does the narrator realize the closer he becomes to Usher?
(a) Usher only wants to cause the narrator discomfort
(b) Usher is not as bad off as the narrator first believes
(c) Usher is faking his problems
(d) It is futile to try to cheer Usher

12. What does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?
(a) A creaking door
(b) The sound of chains dragging
(c) Labored breathing
(d) A light step

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

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

15. What does the narrator say he could not remake into something better?
(a) The prospects of no work
(b) His idea of his future employment
(c) The cast of gloom coming from the House of Usher
(d) The reason he has come to the House of Usher

Short Answer Questions

1. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?

2. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?

3. How does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?

4. What does Usher hope to gain from the narrator?

5. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?

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