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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. How does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?
(a) Base
(b) Lofty
(c) Imaginative
(d) Unintelligible
2. What superstitious impression chains Usher?
(a) The belief that a demon lives in the cellar
(b) The belief that the house of Usher had itself caused Usher's malady
(c) The belief that Usher's grandfather controls Usher's life from the other side
(d) The belief the garden is full of evil sprites
3. What does the narrator say is dangerous to Usher?
(a) Trying to understand the eerie atmosphere outside
(b) The outside air
(c) Standing in the rain
(d) Dwelling too long on Madeline
4. What does the narrator say overtakes him as he watches Lady Madeline leave?
(a) Stupor
(b) Embarrassment
(c) The desire to run out of the house
(d) The desire to save her
5. What does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?
(a) The sound of chains dragging
(b) A creaking door
(c) Labored breathing
(d) A light step
Short Answer Questions
1. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?
2. What is one word the narrator uses to describe the book he picks up to read?
3. How does Usher react to bright light?
4. For what does Usher think his sister will upbraid him?
5. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator do before actually going inside the House of Usher?
2. Why is the narrator on his way to the House of Usher?
3. What does the narrator say about Roderick's face?
4. What does the narrator notice Roderick doing as they hear a clanging sound at the same time the book mentions the same such sound?
5. What does the narrator discover when he gets up and bends his ear close to Roderick's mouth?
6. What does the narrator think of Roderick's ostensible reason for delaying Madeline's burial?
7. What does Roderick say in reply to the narrator's comment about how Roderick and Madeline resemble each other?
8. How does the narrator react to Roderick's mood after Madeline's death?
9. What seems to be happening in "real" time as the narrator reads?
10. How does the narrator react upon first seeing Roderick?
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