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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 Usher think the sounds in the house are?
(a) His sister breaking loose from her coffin
(b) All his ancestors coming alive
(c) The acting out of the storm's fury
(d) The devil's minions

2. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About the death of Christ
(b) About the Egyptian afterlife
(c) About African Satrys
(d) About the Illuminati

3. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?
(a) Storing food
(b) Storing scrolls
(c) A bolt hole
(d) Torture and imprisonment

4. Into whose dwelling is the hero of Trist trying to enter?
(a) The prince
(b) The monk
(c) The queen
(d) The hermit

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say is dangerous to Usher?

3. How does the narrator describe the window panes?

4. In what was much of the vault beneath the narrator's apartments sheathed?

5. What is the "Ververt et Chartreuse"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator attempt to calm Roderick?

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

3. What does the narrator think of Roderick's ostensible reason for delaying Madeline's burial?

4. What do the narrator and Roderick do for one last time before placing Madeline's coffin in the vault?

5. How does the narrator respond to Roderick's increasing instability?

6. One is one topic of discussion between the narrator and Roderick that arises from the singing of Roderick's song, "The Haunted Palace"?

7. How does the narrator help Roderick regarding Roderick's deceased sister?

8. What does Roderick seem to vacillate between?

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

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

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