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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 "cadaverously wan"?
(a) Usher's countenance
(b) The face of the servant that comes in behind Usher
(c) The light outside the window
(d) The glow of the lantern

2. What does the narrator say overtakes him as he watches Lady Madeline leave?
(a) Stupor
(b) The desire to save her
(c) Embarrassment
(d) The desire to run out of the house

3. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About the Illuminati
(b) About the Egyptian afterlife
(c) About the death of Christ
(d) About African Satrys

4. How does the narrator feel about how he is greeted?
(a) It is overdone
(b) It is as if Usher is playing a game
(c) It is foreboding
(d) It is sad

5. Upon what do the clouds press according to the narrator?
(a) The bog and tarn
(b) The gates of hell
(c) The turrets of the house
(d) His own fears

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the House of Usher?

2. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?

3. What is the narrator unable to see in the room?

4. What are the trees like that are in the yard?

5. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator help Roderick regarding Roderick's deceased sister?

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

4. One is one topic of discussion between the narrator and Roderick that arises from the singing of Roderick's song, "The Haunted Palace"?

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

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

7. With what is the narrator impressed concerning Roderick?

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

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

10. What does the narrator do when he realizes that both twins are dead?

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