18.) Read the following excerpt. Then answer the questions. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eyelike windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul, which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the afterdream of the reveler upon opium—the bitter lapse into everyday life—the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher?
Use the passage to answer the question.
Reread the first sentence of the excerpt above. Context clues suggest that sedges are
A. plants.
B. houses.
C. mailboxes.
19.) Use the passage to answer the question.
Which of the following statements best paraphrases the first sentence of the excerpt above?
A. I had a daydream about a vacant house.
B. The house before me was surely haunted.
C. The appearance of the house depressed me.