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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say is the cause of his initial impression and feelings as he approaches the House of Usher?
(a) A combination of his trepidation about his new job and being recently widowed
(b) A combination of how the entire outside of the house and grounds appeared
(c) The desire to do well in his new employment
(d) The knowledge that his best friend has died in that house

3. What does the narrator think Usher is attempting to find the courage to do after Madeline has been dead for several days?
(a) Ask the narrator to live there permanently
(b) Tell the narrator a secret
(c) Bury Madeline
(d) Leave his home and travel abroad

4. What passages in the Pomponius Mela was interesting to the Usher?
(a) About the death of Christ
(b) About the Illuminati
(c) About the Egyptian afterlife
(d) About African Satrys

5. Upon what do the clouds press according to the narrator?
(a) His own fears
(b) The bog and tarn
(c) The turrets of the house
(d) The gates of hell

6. What does Usher try to overcome in the presence of the narrator according to the narrator?
(a) The resentment Usher had always held toward the narrator for the narrator's superior mind
(b) The sorrow Usher felt when the narrator's sister rejected his marriage proposal
(c) Usher's nervous agitation
(d) The rancor the two men felt when they last parted

7. What is the creature guarding?
(a) Pandora's box
(b) A book
(c) The elixir of youth
(d) A palace of gold

8. What does the narrator say the windows of the House of Usher are like?
(a) Dilapidated
(b) Eyes
(c) Ship portals
(d) Mirrors

9. What type of energy does the narrator believe Usher's chin shows?
(a) Moral
(b) Goal-oriented
(c) Robust
(d) Filial

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

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

12. 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 seldom are without a humorous side
(d) They are decreased when one chooses to use terror himself

13. From where does Usher think he got his malady?
(a) A friend who Usher nursed
(b) A family evil
(c) His last trip to India
(d) A bog on the far reaches of the estate

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the physical structure of the House of Usher?

2. What does the narrator hear as he paces through his apartment?

3. The throngs in the song laugh, but what do they not do anymore?

4. How does Usher prefer his food to be?

5. What does the narrator say is inaccessible in the room to which he is shown?

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