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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What infects the narrator?
(a) Usher's condition
(b) A cut the narrator receives in the bog
(c) Usher's joy that his sister is free
(d) Usher's excitement at being free to leave the estate

2. What does the narrator say is "cadaverously wan"?
(a) Usher's countenance
(b) The light outside the window
(c) The face of the servant that comes in behind Usher
(d) The glow of the lantern

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

4. What does Usher hope to gain from the narrator?
(a) Money
(b) Solace
(c) An agreement to marry Usher's sister
(d) Forgiveness

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say may have originated in the tarn?

2. What color does the narrator say are the floors in the house of Usher?

3. What color is the light coming through the windows?

4. How does the narrator describe the small pond near the house?

5. About what does the narrator say Usher had always been excessive and habitual?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator regularly observe Roderick doing after Madeline's death?

2. Why does the narrator think the vault was used in more recent times to store gunpowder?

3. To what does Roderick say part of his mental state can be traced?

4. What type of struggle is going on within Roderick?

5. According to Roderick, what impact does the sentience of the plants around the House of Usher have on the Usher family?

6. What does Roderick believe he has done to Madeline?

7. What had Roderick's sister, up to the narrator's arrive, resisted, but how does that change after the narrator arrives at the house of Usher?

8. What does the narrator think of Roderick's ostensible reason for delaying Madeline's burial?

9. What does the narrator say about African Satyrs and Aepipans?

10. How does the narrator feel as he approaches the House of Usher?

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