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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. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?
(a) Mozart
(b) Usher's own
(c) Strauss
(d) Von Weber
2. What is the "grim phantasm"?
(a) Fear
(b) The night
(c) Death
(d) A ghost who haunts the House of Usher
3. What is the narrator unable to see in the room?
(a) The recesses of the ceiling
(b) The fact that there was someone else in the room besides his friend
(c) The colors of the tapestries
(d) The expression on his friend's face
4. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?
(a) That it is Usher at whom he is looking
(b) That Usher is among the living
(c) That Usher has ever been out of the house since arriving home several years ago
(d) That Usher wants rescuing
5. What does Usher believe will happen concerning his illness?
(a) It will soon pass
(b) He will recover but it will be a long time coming
(c) He has no opinion
(d) He will die of it
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Usher try to overcome in the presence of the narrator according to the narrator?
2. What does the hero of Trist believe himself to be?
3. What does Roderick Usher hope will happen through a visit by the narrator?
4. What else had prepared the narrator for Usher's appearance?
5. How does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator describe Roderick's appearance?
2. What had Roderick written to the narrator to get the narrator to come visit?
3. How does the narrator describe the door into the vault where they lay Madeline's coffin?
4. How does the narrator react to Roderick's mood after Madeline's death?
5. What does the narrator discover when he gets up and bends his ear close to Roderick's mouth?
6. For what purpose and when was the vault used in previous times?
7. Why does the narrator think the vault was used in more recent times to store gunpowder?
8. How does the narrator throw off his sense of gloom upon approaching the house?
9. What announcement does Roderick abruptly make one evening?
10. How does the narrator find Roderick's mental state?
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