2. What does Usher say he dreads?
(a) Events in the future
(b) The past being uncovered
(c) Losing his mind
(d) His sister suffering because of him

3. How many enduring branches can be found on the Usher family tree?
(a) No insignificant number
(b) Enough for respecibility
(c) About average for a prestigious line
(d) None

4. Where is the narrator first conducted when he enters the house of Usher?
(a) The dining room
(b) The room where he would be staying
(c) The master's studio
(d) The gardens

5. How is Usher's skin described?
(a) An upper-class paleness
(b) Flushed
(c) Ruddy
(d) A ghastly pallor

6. What does Usher say about the similarity between he and his sister's appearance?
(a) Their father's genes were particularly strong in both of them
(b) Their mother's genes were particularly strong in both of them
(c) They are twins
(d) Their parents were first cousins, so family resemblance is strong

7. Who does the narrator meet on one of the staircases?
(a) Another good friend who went to school with the narrator and Usher
(b) The family physician
(c) The master of the house
(d) A young boy

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

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

10. 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) Pushing upon several of the leaning trees
(d) Looking down within the tarn

11. What does the narrator perceive under the mass of cloud vapors?
(a) Flying objects
(b) Faces of demons
(c) A rainbow
(d) An unnatural glow

12. Who is the hero of Trist?
(a) Nathan
(b) Trist
(c) Mandred
(d) Ethelred

13. What does the narrator say about Usher after they had placed Madeline's coffin in the vault below the narrator's apartments?
(a) Usher did very little but wander from room to room
(b) Usher burned all his paintings of Madeline
(c) Usher seemed more at peace
(d) Usher actually smiled a few times

14. Whose last waltz does the narrator hold a painful memory?
(a) Strauss
(b) Usher's own
(c) Mozart
(d) Von Weber

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