Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what was much of the vault beneath the narrator's apartments sheathed?
(a) Iron
(b) Wood
(c) Stone
(d) Copper
2. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It is hurled into the heavens
(b) It burns down
(c) It is left to rot
(d) It sinks into the tarn
3. What does the narrator say is paradoxical about emotions based upon terror?
(a) They are born of the feelings of goodness
(b) They are increased upon the contemplation of said emotions
(c) They are decreased when one chooses to use terror himself
(d) They seldom are without a humorous side
4. What does the narrator describe as long and improvised
(a) The fighting songs the two sang together
(b) Usher's dirges
(c) The paeans to his ancestral lineage
(d) Usher's harangues against the gods
5. Why does the narrator think he should read out loud to Usher?
(a) It will have a calming effect
(b) To keep the narrator from dashing outside.
(c) To distract the narrator from the moaning sounds
(d) To lighten the narrator's mood
Short Answer Questions
1. At what point in an opium user's habit does Usher sometimes resemble?
2. What infects the narrator?
3. What is one thing the narrator says Roderick Usher writes about to him?
4. What appalls the narrator when Usher enters the narrator's rooms?
5. What does the narrator speculate has contributed to the appearance of the premises?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator describe Roderick's appearance?
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 is the only instrument Roderick can tolerate hearing?
4. With what is the narrator impressed concerning Roderick?
5. How does the narrator react upon first seeing Roderick?
6. What does the narrator say about African Satyrs and Aepipans?
7. How does the narrator throw off his sense of gloom upon approaching the house?
8. What is Roderick's response to Madeline falling upon him?
9. What had Roderick written to the narrator to get the narrator to come visit?
10. What do the narrator and Roderick do for one last time before placing Madeline's coffin in the vault?
|
This section contains 638 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
