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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Tree.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city stood 10,000 years ago but stands no more, in the story "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Imbor.
(b) Sarnath.
(c) Ib.
(d) Anar.

2. What did the sailor awake to find himself surrounded by in "Dagon"?
(a) Lava.
(b) White light.
(c) Yellow light.
(d) Dark ooze.

3. Where was it rumored the people of Ib had descended from where, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Venus.
(b) Mars.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) The moon.

4. What is referred to as the land of pleasures unattained, in "The White Ship"?
(a) Xura.
(b) Thalarian.
(c) Cathuria.
(d) Sona-Nyl.

5. What did the old cotter like to do, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Kill cats.
(b) Eat steak.
(c) Fish.
(d) Shoot dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a boy messenger report seeing, surrounding the cotter's house, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?

2. What killed Musides, in the end of "The Tree"?

3. Who "revelled by night amidst the urban gaieties of Tegea," in "The Tree"?

4. What is the name of the sailor Kurane hires, in "Celephais"?

5. When does the author write in "Polaris," "the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon"?

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