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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 Usher react to bright light?
(a) He likes it for painting
(b) He hates it because he can see himself in the mirror
(c) He likes it to play with his crystals
(d) His eyes are tortured by it

2. What does the narrator believe he hears when he reads about the hero slaying the creature?
(a) Someone else reading the same story in another part of the house
(b) The same sound his imagination conjured in reading the book
(c) A voice saying, You die.
(d) Nothing

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

4. What feelings arise in the narrator while first gazing upon Usher?
(a) Bitterness and curiosity
(b) Pity and awe
(c) Anger
(d) Terror

5. What was the duty of the Echoes in the song?
(a) To sing of the wit and wisdom of their king
(b) To calm the agitated soul
(c) To drive the ruler mad
(d) To remind all of the light

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usher fear about Madeline?

2. What happens to the narrator as he lies in bed the eighth night after Madeline's death?

3. Into whose dwelling is the hero of Trist trying to enter?

4. What music does Usher prefer?

5. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When does the narrator find he is unable to sleep and upon what does he blame that fact?

7. What had Roderick written to the narrator to get the narrator to come visit?

8. What is one picture Roderick painted that the narrator describes and says it is not as abstract as the others?

9. How does Roderick explain his desire to delay the burial of Madeline?

10. How does the narrator attempt to calm Roderick?

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