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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What group of people does the narrator say is suggested in Usher's nose?
(a) Hebrew
(b) Scandinavian
(c) Russia
(d) Toltec

3. How does the narrator explain what the two men witnessed when looking out the window?
(a) The end of all hope
(b) Satan's hand of evil
(c) Electrical phenomena
(d) God's vengeance

4. What color does the narrator say are the floors in the house of Usher?
(a) Ebony
(b) Light oak
(c) White terrazzo
(d) Red carpet

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

6. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?
(a) The screeching sounds
(b) The electrical phenomena
(c) The sounds of moaning
(d) The feeling of peace pervading the scene

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

8. What does Usher admit in a lucid moment concerning his gloomy outlook?
(a) It is probably because of his sister's absence for the past several months
(b) It is probably because he has not gone anywhere for a while
(c) It is probably due to the extreme overcast weather of late
(d) It is probably due to his severe and long-standing illness

9. What is the weather like that night?
(a) A steady drizzle with no wind
(b) A full moon and no stars
(c) Mild and clear
(d) Tempestuous

10. Who first occupies the place the lyrics describe?
(a) Beasts of the field
(b) Humans
(c) Demons
(d) Angels

11. What does the narrator describe Usher as seeming to pour forth as if it were "an inherent positive quality"?
(a) Darkness from Usher's mind
(b) The story of his parents' individual deaths
(c) His fascination with his sister's illness.
(d) Gossip about their fellow students.

12. What is the expression on the face of the person the narrator encounters on the staircase?
(a) Exuberant
(b) Sad
(c) Cunning and perplexed
(d) Welcoming

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

14. What superstitious impression chains Usher?
(a) The belief the garden is full of evil sprites
(b) The belief that Usher's grandfather controls Usher's life from the other side
(c) The belief that the house of Usher had itself caused Usher's malady
(d) The belief that a demon lives in the cellar

15. What does the narrator say he often finds Usher doing?
(a) Staring off into space for hours at a time
(b) Talking to Madeline as if she were still alive
(c) Cutting his arms
(d) Singing a lullaby to Madeline

Short Answer Questions

1. For what had the vault beneath the narrator's apartments once been used in feudal times?

2. What is the narrator later unable to convey about the time he spent with Usher?

3. What was the duty of the Echoes in the song?

4. How does the narrator describe the clouds?

5. What does the narrator believe is odd about Usher's hair?

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