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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing the narrator say Usher suffers from intensely?
(a) A morbid acuteness of the senses
(b) Poor nutrition
(c) A childlike and dangerous belief in the unseen
(d) Wrongful beliefs

2. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?
(a) After the drug is worn off and the user has to eat some more
(b) During the initial time of intense excitement just after the user has had some opium
(c) When the drug is almost wore off
(d) During a time when trying to quit the habit and the user is shaking in delirious confusion

3. How does the narrator describe the small pond near the house?
(a) Black and lurid
(b) Green and tepid
(c) Clear and cold
(d) Like a mirror

4. What colors were the banners that floated on the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Yellow
(b) Red
(c) Blue
(d) Black

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Usher die?

2. Who does Usher say is dying?

3. Of what texture is Usher's hair?

4. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?

5. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere of the room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Roderick's genius as a painter lie?

2. How does the narrator describe the door into the vault where they lay Madeline's coffin?

3. What does the narrator say about the decor of the house?

4. Who does the narrator meet on the stairs and what is the narrator's impression of the person?

5. How does the narrator describe Roderick's appearance?

6. Why is the narrator on his way to the House of Usher?

7. According to Roderick, what impact does the sentience of the plants around the House of Usher have on the Usher family?

8. What does the narrator say about Roderick's face?

9. Why does the narrator think the house and the family are both called "The House of Usher"?

10. What is one picture Roderick painted that the narrator describes and says it is not as abstract as the others?

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