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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 the atmosphere of the room?
(a) Quiet
(b) Lively
(c) Sorrowful
(d) Hopeful
2. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?
(a) The feeling of peace pervading the scene
(b) The sounds of moaning
(c) The screeching sounds
(d) The electrical phenomena
3. For what does Usher think his sister will upbraid him?
(a) His desire to keep her body from the physician
(b) His belief in the goodness of God
(c) His weak constitution
(d) For being hasty
4. To what does the narrator compare his depression of the soul?
(a) The time when his wife died
(b) The time he learned he had to leave his home that he loved
(c) The time when his oldest child died
(d) A post-opiate after-dream
5. What does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?
(a) Labored breathing
(b) A light step
(c) A creaking door
(d) The sound of chains dragging
Short Answer Questions
1. What style were Usher's paintings?
2. What does the narrator notice about Madeline when he and Usher are staring at her in the coffin?
3. How many enduring branches can be found on the Usher family tree?
4. What does the narrator offer to read to Usher?
5. What does the narrator see when he looks in Usher's eyes?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does the narrator meet on the stairs and what is the narrator's impression of the person?
2. What does Roderick believe he has done to Madeline?
3. What seems to be happening in "real" time as the narrator reads?
4. What does the narrator say about Roderick's usual habits after Madeline dies?
5. What does the narrator say about Roderick's face?
6. What does Roderick say in reply to the narrator's comment about how Roderick and Madeline resemble each other?
7. How does the narrator feel as he approaches the House of Usher?
8. Where does Roderick's genius as a painter lie?
9. How does the narrator describe the door into the vault where they lay Madeline's coffin?
10. How does the narrator describe the vault where Madeline's coffin is temporarily laid to rest?
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