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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Joe Slater awaken from a nightmare to do, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Kill his wife.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Kill a man.
(d) Kill his children.

2. What is the name of the sailor Kurane hires, in "Celephais"?
(a) Menes.
(b) Athib.
(c) Basil.
(d) Borkrug.

3. In what land is there a vast, still lake that is fed by no stream, but out of which no stream flows, in "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"?
(a) Ib.
(b) Mnar.
(c) Sarnath.
(d) Agar.

4. Where were the travelers, in "The Cats of Ulthar," coming from?
(a) The west.
(b) The north.
(c) The east.
(d) The south.

5. What is the name of the psychiatric patient, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Joe Slater.
(b) Joe Martin.
(c) Jerry Slater.
(d) Andy Slater.

6. In Celephais, there is no what?
(a) Time.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Language.
(d) Peace.

7. Where does the narrator decide to travel after many eons, in "The White Ship"?
(a) Sona-Nyl.
(b) Cathuria.
(c) Thalarian.
(d) Xura.

8. What city does the narrator first dream he is in, in "Polaris"?
(a) Kadiphonek.
(b) Olathoe.
(c) Alhtoa.
(d) Lomar.

9. In the narrator's dream in "Polaris," he finds himself in a city between the peaks of Noton and what?
(a) Lomar.
(b) Alhtoa.
(c) Olathoe.
(d) Kadiphonek.

10. What is the narrator's job in the dream-land, in "Polaris"?
(a) Cook.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Carriage driver.
(d) Lookout.

11. 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) Anar.
(d) Ib.

12. What does a boy messenger report seeing, surrounding the cotter's house, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Lions.
(b) Bears.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Cats.

13. What were on the sides of the vehicles of the travelers, in "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Flying elves.
(b) Dragons.
(c) Fish-men.
(d) Cat-humans.

14. What is described as the pink marble city, in "Celephais"?
(a) Xura.
(b) Menes.
(c) Serannian.
(d) Athib.

15. What is the name of the narrator in "The White Ship"?
(a) Crawford Tillinghast.
(b) Basil Elton.
(c) Kurane.
(d) Iranor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the land in which the narrator finds himself dreaming, in "Polaris"?

2. What does Kurane see coming towards him on the bridge, in the ending of "Celephais"?

3. Who is on the white ship seen by the narrator, in "The White Ship"?

4. Celephais is located beyond what hills?

5. What was the sailor taken aboard as prisoner in "Dagon"?

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