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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What bewilders the narrator as he listens to Usher speak of his problem?
(a) Why Usher refuses to see a physician
(b) Why Usher wants the narrator there
(c) The way Usher speaks in a combination of French, English and Italian
(d) Some of the symptoms that Usher relates pertaining to his malady

4. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?
(a) Being abandoned by all
(b) Being misunderstood
(c) Terror
(d) A placid life

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

6. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?
(a) During the initial time of intense excitement just after the user has had some opium
(b) During a time when trying to quit the habit and the user is shaking in delirious confusion
(c) After the drug is worn off and the user has to eat some more
(d) When the drug is almost wore off

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

8. How does the hero finally get into the dwelling?
(a) Magic
(b) Coaxing
(c) By force
(d) He doesn't get in

9. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?
(a) That it is Usher at whom he is looking
(b) That Usher wants rescuing
(c) That Usher has ever been out of the house since arriving home several years ago
(d) That Usher is among the living

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

11. How often is it likely that the narrator will see Madeline in the future?
(a) At least at chapel on Wednesdays and Sundays
(b) Probably daily as she checks on her brother regularly
(c) Probably never again
(d) Probably at the formal dinners every evening

12. How does Usher prefer his food to be?
(a) Very spicy since he has little ability to taste
(b) Cool almost to the point of being cold
(c) Very mild
(d) Boiling hot

13. Of what does the narrator suggest the MS. he receives gives evidence?
(a) Nervous agitation
(b) Unnatural calm
(c) Overwhelming sorrow
(d) Delicate intellect

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

15. To what does the narrator compare his depression of the soul?
(a) A post-opiate after-dream
(b) The time when his wife died
(c) The time he learned he had to leave his home that he loved
(d) The time when his oldest child died

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first occupies the place the lyrics describe?

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

3. What does Usher as the narrator after a few moments of staring into space?

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

5. How does the narrator describe the night?

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