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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 odors does Usher find oppressive?
(a) The odor from the dog
(b) The scent from flowers
(c) The smell of women's perfume
(d) The odor of cooked meat

2. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
(a) A demon with Madeline's features confined in chains
(b) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(c) Many demons feasting
(d) A vault of low walls

3. What does Usher say about his relationship with his sister?
(a) It is somewhat distant
(b) They fought terribly as children but were closer as adults
(c) They were close as young children and then drifted apart
(d) They have always been extremely close

4. How does the narrator feel when Usher's sister comes through the apartment where Usher and the narrator are?
(a) Tongue-tied
(b) Dread
(c) Admiration
(d) Spiteful

5. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It is hurled into the heavens
(b) It is left to rot
(c) It burns down
(d) It sinks into the tarn

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people does the narrator say is suggested in Usher's nose?

2. What spreads over the entire exterior of the mansion?

3. What happens to the trophies of armor when the narrator walks past them?

4. What word does the narrator use to describe the hours he spends with Usher?

5. What is the impact of Usher's condition on the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When does the narrator find he is unable to sleep and upon what does he blame that fact?

4. How do the men like the book the narrator reads and what surprises the narrator about Roderick's response to the book?

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

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

7. How does the narrator react upon first seeing Roderick?

8. With what is the narrator impressed concerning Roderick?

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

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

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