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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 does the narrator have to ride over to approach near the house?
(a) A short causeway
(b) A shallow stream
(c) A covered bridge wide enough for three carriages to ride abreast
(d) A wooden bridge of several haphazard planks

2. What is a feature of one "phantasmagoric" picture that Usher painted and the narrator describes?
(a) Many demons feasting
(b) A demon with Madeline's features confined in chains
(c) A skeleton swinging from a branch
(d) A vault of low walls

3. Besides books, what else were scattered about in the room?
(a) Swords and other arms
(b) Pillows
(c) Musical instruments
(d) Papers

4. How long does Usher want to keep Madeline's body before burial?
(a) He wants to have the body lie in state in the church for three days
(b) He wants to burn the body
(c) A fortnight
(d) Only the same night

5. What is one way the narrator said he had been prepared for Usher's present state?
(a) By a letter penned by Usher's cousin
(b) By the doctor, whom the narrator encounters in town before riding to the house of Usher
(c) By Usher's letter to the narrator
(d) By gossip among classmates

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does not come up between the narrator and Usher during the next several days?

2. Who does Usher say is dying?

3. What superstitious impression chains Usher?

4. Instead of danger, what does Usher abhor?

5. What music does Usher prefer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is at the door when it flies open and what does the person do?

2. What does Roderick seem to vacillate between?

3. What does the narrator say about his friendship with Roderick Usher?

4. What is the only instrument Roderick can tolerate hearing?

5. Where does Roderick's genius as a painter lie?

6. What does the narrator say about Madeline's appearance when he looked upon her before they sealed the coffin lid?

7. What does the narrator do in response to his feelings of unease and who joins him?

8. One is one topic of discussion between the narrator and Roderick that arises from the singing of Roderick's song, "The Haunted Palace"?

9. What does the narrator do before actually going inside the House of Usher?

10. What does the narrator say about Roderick's face?

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