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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 infects the narrator?
(a) Usher's joy that his sister is free
(b) Usher's excitement at being free to leave the estate
(c) Usher's condition
(d) A cut the narrator receives in the bog

2. What is the "Ververt et Chartreuse"?
(a) A book ostensibly by Gresset
(b) A painting by Monet
(c) A region in France
(d) A poem by Machiavelli

3. What color are the tree trunks?
(a) Brown
(b) White
(c) Yellowed
(d) Grey

4. What happens to the narrator as he lies in bed the eighth night after Madeline's death?
(a) A blanket of utter terror falls upon his heart
(b) He imagines his mother calling him
(c) He prays and sees a light from the heavens
(d) He is assaulted by one of the serving lads

5. What does the narrator doubt when he studies over Usher's countenance?
(a) That Usher is among the living
(b) That Usher has ever been out of the house since arriving home several years ago
(c) That Usher wants rescuing
(d) That it is Usher at whom he is looking

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Usher's demeanor?

2. Who leads the narrator through the house?

3. What is the title of the verses Usher composes that the narrator pens in the story?

4. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere of the room?

5. How does the narrator describe the lapse into everyday life in his description upon spying the House of Usher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator think the vault was used in more recent times to store gunpowder?

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

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

4. What announcement does Roderick abruptly make one evening?

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

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator say about Roderick's face?

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

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