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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 two aspects of the Usher family does the narrator say the peasantry links together?
(a) Their madness and generosity
(b) Their intellect and their eccentricities
(c) Their name and their behavior
(d) Their family name and the family mansion

2. What color are the tree trunks?
(a) White
(b) Yellowed
(c) Brown
(d) Grey

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

4. How does Usher greet the narrator?
(a) With grave formality
(b) With charmed indifference
(c) With a certain amount of cynicism
(d) With a vivacious warmth

5. What sort of activities do Usher and the narrator do together over the next few days?
(a) Wild boar hunting
(b) Painting and reading
(c) Playing the harpsichord and singing
(d) Fencing and fox hunting

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is inaccessible in the room to which he is shown?

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

3. How does the narrator describe Usher's overall countenance?

4. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?

5. How does the narrator feel when Usher's sister comes through the apartment where Usher and the narrator are?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator observe about Roderick after Madeline's death?

4. What does the narrator say about the decor of the house?

5. What does the narrator do in response to his feelings of unease and who joins him?

6. What does Roderick seem to vacillate between?

7. Why is the narrator unable to shake off his feelings of uneasiness the night of the storm?

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

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

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

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