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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 think Usher is attempting to find the courage to do after Madeline has been dead for several days?
(a) Ask the narrator to live there permanently
(b) Leave his home and travel abroad
(c) Tell the narrator a secret
(d) Bury Madeline

2. What is the expression on the face of the person the narrator encounters on the staircase?
(a) Exuberant
(b) Cunning and perplexed
(c) Sad
(d) Welcoming

3. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?
(a) That Usher wants rescuing
(b) That Usher has ever been out of the house since arriving home several years ago
(c) That Usher is among the living
(d) That it is Usher at whom he is looking

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

5. What is one of the Usher's favorite volumes that the narrator and Usher read?
(a) Directorium Inquisitorium
(b) City of the Sun
(c) Journey into the Blue Distance
(d) Subterranean Voyage

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?

3. What is the setting of the picture the narrator describes?

4. What does the narrator say about Vigiliæ Mortuorum Secundum Chorum Ecclesiæ Maguntinæ?

5. What does Usher fear about Madeline?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What had Roderick written to the narrator to get the narrator to come visit?

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

4. What seems to be happening in "real" time as the narrator reads?

5. How does the narrator throw off his sense of gloom upon approaching the house?

6. What does the narrator say about his friendship with Roderick Usher?

7. What is the significance of the small volume titled “Directorium Inquisitorium,” by the Dominican Eymeric de Gironne?

8. What does the narrator say about African Satyrs and Aepipans?

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

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

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