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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. To what does the narrator say Usher seems to be listening?
(a) Music from the drawing room
(b) Pleas from the physicians who want Usher to accept sedation
(c) Usher's own sense of distorted reality
(d) Imaginary sounds

2. How does the narrator feel when Usher's sister comes through the apartment where Usher and the narrator are?
(a) Dread
(b) Admiration
(c) Spiteful
(d) Tongue-tied

3. What superstitious impression chains Usher?
(a) The belief that the house of Usher had itself caused Usher's malady
(b) The belief that Usher's grandfather controls Usher's life from the other side
(c) The belief that a demon lives in the cellar
(d) The belief the garden is full of evil sprites

4. Who does Usher say is dying?
(a) His cousin
(b) His sister
(c) His mother
(d) His brother

5. What painter does the narrator say paints in too concrete details?
(a) Fuseli
(b) Bosch
(c) Fostre
(d) Meignaud

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Roderick Usher painted?

2. In what were the evil things that assailed the monarch's "high estate" dressed?

3. How does Usher greet the narrator?

4. What does the narrator have to ride over to approach near the house?

5. For what temperament does the narrator say the Usher family is known?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Roderick's response to Madeline falling upon him?

2. How does the narrator describe the vault where Madeline's coffin is temporarily laid to rest?

3. What does Roderick say in reply to the narrator's comment about how Roderick and Madeline resemble each other?

4. What does the narrator say about Roderick's usual habits after Madeline dies?

5. How does the narrator attempt to calm Roderick?

6. What is the only instrument Roderick can tolerate hearing?

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

8. Why does the narrator think the vault was used in more recent times to store gunpowder?

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

10. How does the narrator find Roderick in the house?

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