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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. How does the narrator say Usher's voice changes after Madeline dies?
(a) He never speaks above a whisper
(b) It assumes a tremulous quaver
(c) It is even more husky than it used to be
(d) It has a lilt to it

2. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?
(a) Mozart
(b) Strauss
(c) Von Weber
(d) Usher's own

3. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?
(a) A voice saying, You die.
(b) Nothing
(c) Someone else reading the same story in another part of the house
(d) The same sound his imagination conjured in reading the book

4. What does the narrator realize the closer he becomes to Usher?
(a) Usher only wants to cause the narrator discomfort
(b) Usher is not as bad off as the narrator first believes
(c) It is futile to try to cheer Usher
(d) Usher is faking his problems

5. Upon what does the narrator blame what happens the eighth night after Madeline's death?
(a) Too much wine for dinner
(b) The gloomy room furnishings
(c) The lack of Usher's faith
(d) The vision of Madeline as they looked at her in the coffin

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?

3. Where is the ruler in the early part of the song the narrator records?

4. For what does Usher think his sister will upbraid him?

5. What does the narrator say has changed in Usher in a short period of time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Madeline's appearance when he looked upon her before they sealed the coffin lid?

2. Why is the narrator on his way to the House of Usher?

3. According to Roderick, what impact does the sentience of the plants around the House of Usher have on the Usher family?

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

5. What had Roderick's sister, up to the narrator's arrive, resisted, but how does that change after the narrator arrives at the house of Usher?

6. What type of struggle is going on within Roderick?

7. Where does Roderick's genius as a painter lie?

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

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

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

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