2. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?
(a) The horror at being trapped with a madman
(b) Exactly what the two did during the time
(c) The sorrow at failing to cheer his friend
(d) The ways Madeline continually impinged upon their time

3. What does the narrator have to ride over to approach near the house?
(a) A covered bridge wide enough for three carriages to ride abreast
(b) A short causeway
(c) A wooden bridge of several haphazard planks
(d) A shallow stream

4. What does the narrator say about the archway that leads into the hall?
(a) There was no archway
(b) It had slimy vines hanging from it
(c) It was newly repaired
(d) It was of Gothic architecture

5. What is the impact of Usher's condition on the narrator?
(a) It saddens the narrator
(b) It makes the narrator want to remove Usher from the premises
(c) It terrifies the narrator
(d) It mystifies the narrator

6. What does the narrator say is inaccessible in the room to which he is shown?
(a) The books on the upper bookcases
(b) The windows
(c) The high bed
(d) The paintings of former generations of the Usher family

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

8. What happens one night when the narrator goes to bed about eight days after Madeline has died?
(a) The doors and windows open and close on their own
(b) The narrator suffers all night with fits of nervousness
(c) Usher moans all night
(d) The house shakes as if in an earthquake

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

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

11. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?
(a) Someone else reading the same story in another part of the house
(b) A voice saying, You die.
(c) The same sound his imagination conjured in reading the book
(d) Nothing

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

13. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?
(a) They were naked
(b) Robes of crimson death
(c) Robes of sorrow
(d) Robes of white and gold

14. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?
(a) Turned Usher's chair to face the door of the chamber
(b) Put his head in his hands
(c) Scratched his own face
(d) Wrapped himself in the sheet from the bed

15. The throngs in the song laugh, but what do they not do anymore?
(a) Sing
(b) Dance
(c) Curtsy
(d) Smile