2. What is the weather like that night?
(a) Tempestuous
(b) Mild and clear
(c) A full moon and no stars
(d) A steady drizzle with no wind

3. About what does the narrator say Usher had always been excessive and habitual?
(a) Reserve
(b) Affection
(c) Loyalty
(d) Laxness in moral character

4. How does the narrator describe the window panes?
(a) As being enclosed in splintered wood
(b) As being dirty
(c) As being trellised
(d) As being glazed in thick lead

5. From where does Usher think he got his malady?
(a) A family evil
(b) His last trip to India
(c) A bog on the far reaches of the estate
(d) A friend who Usher nursed

6. What does Usher say about his relationship with his sister?
(a) They fought terribly as children but were closer as adults
(b) They have always been extremely close
(c) It is somewhat distant
(d) They were close as young children and then drifted apart

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

8. How does Usher react to bright light?
(a) He hates it because he can see himself in the mirror
(b) He likes it to play with his crystals
(c) He likes it for painting
(d) His eyes are tortured by it

9. What does the narrator help Usher carry?
(a) All the musical instruments that Usher decides to burn
(b) Stacks of books to a vault in the basement
(c) Usher's deerhound's body
(d) Madeline's coffin

10. What about Lady Madeline had baffled her physicians?
(a) Her apparent robust health in face of what her brother is suffering
(b) What is wrong with her health
(c) Why she has refused to leave her brother
(d) Why she refuses medicine that would cure her

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

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

13. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?
(a) He wants to burn the body
(b) Only the same night
(c) He wants to have the body lie in state in the church for three days
(d) A fortnight

14. What is the setting of the picture the narrator describes?
(a) On top of a mountain
(b) On another planet
(c) In the sky
(d) In the depths of the earth

15. What is the expression on the face of the person the narrator encounters on the staircase?
(a) Exuberant
(b) Welcoming
(c) Cunning and perplexed
(d) Sad