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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 describe Usher's overall countenance?
(a) As unmemorable
(b) As noble
(c) As commonplace
(d) As not easily forgotton

2. 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) Bury Madeline
(c) Leave his home and travel abroad
(d) Tell the narrator a secret

3. What does Usher do after shading his lamp's light?
(a) Throws open the casements
(b) Begins reciting poetry
(c) Leans over the lantern and makes a ghastly face
(d) Starts sobbing hysterically

4. What startles the narrator as he reads one part of Trist?
(a) The words seem to be moving across the page
(b) The words start being blurry
(c) The narrator imagines he hears the same sounds in Usher's house
(d) Usher begins hyperventilating

5. To what does the narrator say Usher seems to be listening?
(a) Imaginary sounds
(b) Pleas from the physicians who want Usher to accept sedation
(c) Usher's own sense of distorted reality
(d) Music from the drawing room

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what do the clouds press according to the narrator?

2. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?

3. What feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?

4. How does the narrator describe the window panes?

5. What does the narrator offer to read to Usher?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel as he approaches the House of Usher?

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

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

4. How does the narrator find Roderick in the house?

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. What does the narrator attempt to do for several days, and then what does he conclude about his attempts?

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

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