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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the narrator suggest the MS. he receives gives evidence?
(a) Nervous agitation
(b) Unnatural calm
(c) Overwhelming sorrow
(d) Delicate intellect

2. How does the narrator describe Usher's ideality?
(a) Base
(b) Lofty
(c) Imaginative
(d) Unintelligible

3. What deficiency does the narrator note about the Usher family ancestry?
(a) That it was speckled with other races
(b) That it had a number of issues that were never discussed
(c) It had included persons of dubious character
(d) That the entire family lay in the direct line of descent

4. Of what texture is Usher's hair?
(a) Coarse
(b) Wirily
(c) Chopped
(d) Web-like softness

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

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

7. How does the narrator describe the clouds?
(a) Dense and low
(b) Stacked to the heavens
(c) There were no clouds in sight
(d) Thin and wispy

8. 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

9. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?
(a) The way the narrator wronged Usher at school
(b) The way Usher wronged the narrator at school
(c) The Lady Madeline
(d) Any mention of Usher's illness

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

11. Who leads the narrator through the house?
(a) No one; he goes himself
(b) The narrator's friend's sister
(c) The valet
(d) The cook

12. What about the facade of the mansion seems contradictory?
(a) The bright colors of the soffit compared to the grey of the stone
(b) The care taken with the cornices compared to the haphazard placing of the windows
(c) The fact that the grounds are so well kept compared to the facade of the mansion
(d) The fact that so many individual stones are crumbling but the mansion is still quite intact

13. Why does Usher want to wait a fortnight?
(a) His cousin will have returned for the funeral
(b) His sister was greatly loved and many people will want to pay their respects
(c) Usher is suspicious of the physicians' motives
(d) The moon will be full again

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

15. What does the hero of Trist believe himself to be?
(a) The new guardian of the hermitage
(b) The defender of the weak
(c) The slayer of the serpent
(d) The champion of the brazen shield

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Usher think plants have had upon his life?

2. What are the trees like that are in the yard?

3. What fell down at the feet of the hero?

4. After glancing at Usher, what does the narrator believe about the way in which Usher welcomes him?

5. What does the narrator do with his horse?

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