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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What emotion does the narrator say is rapidly increasing as he sits aside his horse and surveys the surroundings?
(a) Anticipation
(b) Superstition
(c) Optimism
(d) Distaste

4. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?
(a) A lightness
(b) A drudgery
(c) A relief
(d) Bitter

5. What group of people does the narrator say is suggested in Usher's nose?
(a) Toltec
(b) Scandinavian
(c) Russia
(d) Hebrew

6. How does the narrator explain what the two men witnessed when looking out the window?
(a) God's vengeance
(b) Electrical phenomena
(c) Satan's hand of evil
(d) The end of all hope

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

8. What does the narrator often call Usher?
(a) Sadistic
(b) Hypochondriac
(c) Misguided
(d) Eccentric

9. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?
(a) Looking down within the tarn
(b) Pushing upon several of the leaning trees
(c) Crossing his breast upon viewing the home
(d) Holding a lit candle to the putrescent leaves

10. For what is the light coming through the windows of the room sufficient?
(a) To observe the gaunt frame of the master of the house
(b) To read or sew by
(c) To distinguish many of the objects in the room
(d) To avoid tripping over the furniture

11. What is one thing the narrator says Roderick Usher writes about to him?
(a) Grievous physical illness
(b) A legal problem
(c) A problem with his inheritance
(d) An upcoming marriage

12. What word does the narrator use to describe the hours he spends with Usher?
(a) Frightful
(b) Peaceful
(c) Solemn
(d) Lazy

13. What happens to the narrator as he lies in bed the eighth night after Madeline's death?
(a) He imagines his mother calling him
(b) He prays and sees a light from the heavens
(c) A blanket of utter terror falls upon his heart
(d) He is assaulted by one of the serving lads

14. Why does Usher want to wait a fortnight?
(a) His sister was greatly loved and many people will want to pay their respects
(b) Usher is suspicious of the physicians' motives
(c) His cousin will have returned for the funeral
(d) The moon will be full again

15. What word does the narrator use to describe the tapestries?
(a) Intricately woven
(b) Somber
(c) Richly colored
(d) Threadbare

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher say he dreads?

2. For what does Usher think his sister will upbraid him?

3. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?

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

5. How often is it likely that the narrator will see Madeline in the future?

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