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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 does the narrator say is dangerous to Usher?
(a) Dwelling too long on Madeline
(b) The outside air
(c) Standing in the rain
(d) Trying to understand the eerie atmosphere outside

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

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

4. Who is the hero of Trist?
(a) Mandred
(b) Ethelred
(c) Trist
(d) Nathan

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator meet on one of the staircases?

2. How does the narrator feel when he gained his first glimpse of the House of Usher?

3. What color does the narrator say are the floors in the house of Usher?

4. What painter does the narrator say paints in too concrete details?

5. What does the narrator say is inaccessible in the room to which he is shown?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Roderick explain his invitation to a visit by the narrator?

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

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

4. What does the narrator attempt to do for several days, and then what does he conclude about his attempts?

5. What changes about Roderick's voice in the days following Madeline's death?

6. What is the significance of the small volume titled “Directorium Inquisitorium,” by the Dominican Eymeric de Gironne?

7. When does the narrator find he is unable to sleep and upon what does he blame that fact?

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

9. How does the narrator throw off his sense of gloom upon approaching the house?

10. What does Roderick believe he has done to Madeline?

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