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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 the narrator say has changed in Usher in a short period of time?
(a) Usher's feelings of confidence
(b) Usher's appearance
(c) Usher's financial situation
(d) Usher's desire to accomplish great things

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

3. How does the narrator respond to Usher coming into the narrator's apartment?
(a) The narrator is unhappy
(b) The narrator orders Usher to leave
(c) The narrator is uncomfortable but also any company is a relief
(d) The narrator is glad to know it is not Usher who his moaning

4. What does Usher do when Madeline passes through the apartment?
(a) Cries
(b) Asks her to summon a servant
(c) Asks if she is well
(d) Jumps up and hugs her

5. Who first occupies the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Demons
(b) Angels
(c) Beasts of the field
(d) Humans

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people does the narrator say is suggested in Usher's nose?

2. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?

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

4. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the only instrument Roderick can tolerate hearing?

3. What does the narrator say about African Satyrs and Aepipans?

4. How does the narrator react upon first seeing Roderick?

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

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

7. What does Roderick say drives him to despair?

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

9. To what does the narrator attribute the changes in Roderick?

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

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