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

2. What does the narrator see when he looks in Usher's eyes?
(a) A strange calmness
(b) Hope
(c) Overwhelming grief
(d) Mad hilarity

3. What had Usher done as the narrator is reading to him?
(a) Wrapped himself in the sheet from the bed
(b) Put his head in his hands
(c) Turned Usher's chair to face the door of the chamber
(d) Scratched his own face

4. What is one thing the narrator say Usher suffers from intensely?
(a) A morbid acuteness of the senses
(b) Wrongful beliefs
(c) Poor nutrition
(d) A childlike and dangerous belief in the unseen

5. What does Usher offer as an example of his belief about plants?
(a) The caterpillar's preference for plants
(b) The fungus on the walls of the house
(c) The wild flowers
(d) The grasses in the meadows

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the clouds?

2. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?

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

4. How does the narrator feel when Usher's sister comes through the apartment where Usher and the narrator are?

5. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe the vault where Madeline's coffin is temporarily laid to rest?

3. Who is at the door when it flies open and what does the person do?

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

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

6. What does Roderick believe he has done to Madeline?

7. With what is the narrator impressed concerning Roderick?

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

9. To what does Roderick say part of his mental state can be traced?

10. What does the narrator do in response to his feelings of unease and who joins him?

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