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

2. What does the narrator believe is odd about Usher's hair?
(a) That it is now thin and curly when before it had been thick and straight
(b) That it floats around Usher's face rather than lying on the head
(c) That it is no longer the same color as it was when he and Usher were in school
(d) That it is now the color of Usher's sister's hair

3. 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 joviality
(c) Usher's general demeanor
(d) Usher's desire to enlist the narrator's aid

4. What does the narrator say Usher must not do?
(a) Go down to his sister's coffin
(b) Look outside
(c) Go outside
(d) Go back to his room

5. Into whose dwelling is the hero of Trist trying to enter?
(a) The hermit
(b) The prince
(c) The monk
(d) The queen

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

7. 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) The story of his parents' individual deaths
(c) Gossip about their fellow students.
(d) Darkness from Usher's mind

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

9. Besides books, what else were scattered about in the room?
(a) Pillows
(b) Swords and other arms
(c) Papers
(d) Musical instruments

10. What two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?
(a) Their family name and the family mansion
(b) Their madness and generosity
(c) Their name and their behavior
(d) Their intellect and their eccentricities

11. What does the narrator say overtakes him as he watches Lady Madeline leave?
(a) The desire to save her
(b) Stupor
(c) Embarrassment
(d) The desire to run out of the house

12. How does the narrator describe Usher's overall countenance?
(a) As unmemorable
(b) As noble
(c) As not easily forgotton
(d) As commonplace

13. How does the narrator feel when Usher's sister comes through the apartment where Usher and the narrator are?
(a) Dread
(b) Spiteful
(c) Admiration
(d) Tongue-tied

14. What does the narrator perceive under the mass of cloud vapors?
(a) An unnatural glow
(b) A rainbow
(c) Flying objects
(d) Faces of demons

15. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?
(a) The narrator is unhappy
(b) The narrator is uncomfortable but also any company is a relief
(c) The narrator orders Usher to leave
(d) The narrator is glad to know it is not Usher who his moaning

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher think the sounds in the house are?

2. What odors does Usher find oppressive?

3. What color are the tree trunks?

4. From what does the narrator say his feelings about Usher must arise?

5. What does Lady Madeline do the same evening as the arrival of the narrator?

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