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

2. What style were Usher's paintings?
(a) Naturalistic
(b) Realistic
(c) Religious motifs
(d) Abstractions

3. How is Usher's skin described?
(a) A ghastly pallor
(b) Ruddy
(c) An upper-class paleness
(d) Flushed

4. What does Usher hope to gain from the narrator?
(a) Solace
(b) An agreement to marry Usher's sister
(c) Forgiveness
(d) Money

5. How does the narrator describe the clouds?
(a) Stacked to the heavens
(b) Dense and low
(c) Thin and wispy
(d) There were no clouds in sight

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens one night when the narrator goes to bed about eight days after Madeline has died?

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

3. Why does the narrator think he should read out loud to Usher?

4. What is the narrator doing at the opening of the story?

5. What does the narrator say about Usher after they had placed Madeline's coffin in the vault below the narrator's apartments?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say about African Satyrs and Aepipans?

3. To what does Roderick say part of his mental state can be traced?

4. Why is the narrator unable to shake off his feelings of uneasiness the night of the storm?

5. How does Roderick explain his desire to delay the burial of Madeline?

6. How does the narrator describe the vault where they lay Madeline's coffin?

7. What does the narrator regularly observe Roderick doing after Madeline's death?

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

9. What had Roderick's sister, up to the narrator's arrive, resisted, but how does that change after the narrator arrives at the house of Usher?

10. To what does the narrator attribute the changes in Roderick?

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