He listens to Roderick Usher's improvisations on the guitar.

He travels with Roderick Usher to visit Usher's family home.

He travels to visit Roderick Usher at Usher's family home.

He helps Roderick Usher bury Roderick’s sister Madeline in a vault.

cautious and glum

dull and depressed

suspicious and miserable

nervous and agitated

being frightened to death

being accidentally buried alive

the death of his sister Madeline

the collapse of his family's house

She dies, is buried by her brother, but then returns to life to terrorize her brother and the narrator.

She appears to die, is mistakenly entombed, but then revives and forces her way to freedom before dying.

She pretends to die, is taken for dead and is buried, but then emerges from her crypt to destroy the house

She nearly dies, recovers through a doctor's help, but then is thrown into an underground cell by her brother.

During a storm, the waters of the tarn surrounding the house rise until the house is submerged.

During a storm, the barely perceptible fissure in the façade of the house widens until the house collapses.

During a storm, Roderick Usher madly rushes about striking at the house until he causes its collapse.

During a storm, Roderick and Madeline Usher struggle so madly that they cause the collapse of the house.

The building would have part of its roof torn off.

The building would have damage but would remain intact.

The building would be reduced to small fragments.

The building would be removed from its foundation.

The narrator feels obliged to respond to his friend's request for a visit because his friend is clearly upset

The narrator is worried that it will seem rude if he does not answer the letter in a personal way.

The narrator hopes his friend will invite him to stay in the distant part of the country where his friend lives.

The narrator believes that his friend is threatening to harm him if he does not give the right answer

Usher’s confused behavior is reflected in the broken mirrors.

Usher’s self-assurance and noble manner is reflected in its wealth and splendor.

Usher’s advanced age and old-fashioned ways are reflected in the ancient furnishings.

Usher’s physical and mental deterioration is reflected in the gloomy darkness, lack of comfort, and old, worn-out possessions.

The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty.

The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered.

A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device.

Our books—the books which, for years, had formed no small portion of the mental existence of the invalid—were, as might be supposed, in keeping with this character of phantasm.

Usher believes that his house has awareness, like a living thing.

Usher believes that his house will fall apart, sliding into the tarn.

Usher believes that his sister will die, even though she is healthy.

Usher believes that the narrator has held a grudge, ever since boyhood.