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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the door to the vault below the narrator's apartments make an unusually sharp, grating sound when it is opened?
(a) It has metal bands that reinforce it and that scrape against the frame
(b) It has swelled and is too tight a fit in the frame
(c) It is immensely heavy
(d) It is poorly oiled

3. Which work of Swedenborg's does the narrator mention?
(a) Doctrine of Life
(b) The White Horse
(c) The Last Judgment
(d) Heaven and Hell

4. How does Usher prefer his food to be?
(a) Cool almost to the point of being cold
(b) Very mild
(c) Boiling hot
(d) Very spicy since he has little ability to taste

5. What happens to the trophies of armor when the narrator walks past them?
(a) They rattle
(b) Nothing
(c) They light up
(d) They bow

6. What is the impact of Usher's condition on the narrator?
(a) It mystifies the narrator
(b) It makes the narrator want to remove Usher from the premises
(c) It saddens the narrator
(d) It terrifies the narrator

7. To what does the narrator compare his depression of the soul?
(a) The time when his wife died
(b) A post-opiate after-dream
(c) The time he learned he had to leave his home that he loved
(d) The time when his oldest child died

8. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?
(a) Only the same night
(b) He wants to have the body lie in state in the church for three days
(c) A fortnight
(d) He wants to burn the body

9. What does the narrator say he could not remake into something better?
(a) The prospects of no work
(b) The reason he has come to the House of Usher
(c) His idea of his future employment
(d) The cast of gloom coming from the House of Usher

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

11. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?
(a) It is hurled into the heavens
(b) It burns down
(c) It sinks into the tarn
(d) It is left to rot

12. How does the hero finally get into the dwelling?
(a) By force
(b) He doesn't get in
(c) Magic
(d) Coaxing

13. What does the narrator call his "childish experiment"?
(a) Crossing his breast upon viewing the home
(b) Holding a lit candle to the putrescent leaves
(c) Looking down within the tarn
(d) Pushing upon several of the leaning trees

14. What does the narrator say is the principal feature of the Usher mansion upon closer inspection?
(a) Excessive antiquity
(b) Ostentatious detail
(c) Ornate gables
(d) Pretension

15. How does the narrator describe the small pond near the house?
(a) Black and lurid
(b) Clear and cold
(c) Like a mirror
(d) Green and tepid

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Usher announce Madeline's death?

2. What does the narrator say the windows of the House of Usher are like?

3. How does the narrator feel about how he is greeted?

4. What painter does the narrator say paints in too concrete details?

5. How does Usher react to bright light?

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