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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?
(a) The fact that the grounds are so well kept compared to the facade of the mansion
(b) The bright colors of the soffit compared to the grey of the stone
(c) The fact that so many individual stones are crumbling but the mansion is still quite intact
(d) The care taken with the cornices compared to the haphazard placing of the windows

2. 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

3. Why does the narrator think he should read out loud to Usher?
(a) To keep the narrator from dashing outside.
(b) To lighten the narrator's mood
(c) To distract the narrator from the moaning sounds
(d) It will have a calming effect

4. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?
(a) Ideas
(b) Still life
(c) Animals
(d) Landscapes

5. What does the narrator say about Usher after they had placed Madeline's coffin in the vault below the narrator's apartments?
(a) Usher actually smiled a few times
(b) Usher did very little but wander from room to room
(c) Usher seemed more at peace
(d) Usher burned all his paintings of Madeline

6. How does the narrator know Usher is not asleep?
(a) Usher is pacing even though his eyes are closed
(b) Usher's eyes are wide open
(c) Usher is humming
(d) Usher is mumbling to himself

7. Of what texture is Usher's hair?
(a) Wirily
(b) Chopped
(c) Coarse
(d) Web-like softness

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

9. Between what two poles does Usher's actions alternate?
(a) Vivaciousness and sullenness
(b) Begging and condescension
(c) Kindness and cruelty
(d) Childish delight and scorn

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

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

12. What does the narrator say is "stern, deep, and irredeemable"?
(a) The look on the faces of the master's uncle
(b) The look on the master's face
(c) The condemnation that pervades the air in the room
(d) The gloom that pervades the air in the room

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

14. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere of the room?
(a) Lively
(b) Sorrowful
(c) Hopeful
(d) Quiet

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?

2. What does Usher do after shading his lamp's light?

3. How does the hero finally get into the dwelling?

4. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?

5. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?

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