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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 infects the narrator?
(a) Usher's condition
(b) Usher's joy that his sister is free
(c) Usher's excitement at being free to leave the estate
(d) A cut the narrator receives in the bog

2. What appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?
(a) Usher's desire to enlist the narrator's aid
(b) Usher's joviality
(c) Usher's general demeanor
(d) Usher's recital of a poem that makes no sense

3. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?
(a) The fact that the grounds are so well kept compared to the facade of the mansion
(b) The bright colors of the soffit compared to the grey of the stone
(c) The care taken with the cornices compared to the haphazard placing of the windows
(d) The fact that so many individual stones are crumbling but the mansion is still quite intact

4. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?
(a) Nothing
(b) Someone else reading the same story in another part of the house
(c) The same sound his imagination conjured in reading the book
(d) A voice saying, You die.

5. How does the narrator describe Usher's demeanor?
(a) Aggressive
(b) Confident
(c) Restrained hysteria
(d) Cautious

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised

2. How many enduring branches can be found on the Usher family tree?

3. For what does Usher think his sister will upbraid him?

4. What music does Usher prefer?

5. What does the narrator say overtakes him as he watches Lady Madeline leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what purpose and when was the vault used in previous times?

2. What does the narrator notice Roderick doing as they hear a clanging sound at the same time the book mentions the same such sound?

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

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

5. With what is the narrator impressed concerning Roderick?

6. What does the narrator do before actually going inside the House of Usher?

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

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

9. What does Roderick say drives him to despair?

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

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