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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The patient in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" has night rants that are described as extremely what?
(a) Literate.
(b) Endangering.
(c) Illiterate.
(d) Violent.

2. What do the townspeople find in the cotter's house, at the end of "The Cats of Ulthar"?
(a) Angels.
(b) Aliens.
(c) Cats.
(d) Skeletons.

3. On what land, in "The White Ship," is there neither time nor space, suffering nor death?
(a) Xura.
(b) Sona-Nyl.
(c) Thalarian.
(d) Cathuria.

4. Who is on the white ship seen by the narrator, in "The White Ship"?
(a) A sea-god.
(b) A mermaid.
(c) A beautiful woman.
(d) A bearded man.

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

6. What do the narrator and his companion follow in their ship, in "The White Ship"?
(a) A star.
(b) A rainbow.
(c) A bird.
(d) A cloud.

7. Where does the narrator find himself in the end of "The White Ship"?
(a) A hospital.
(b) The lighthouse.
(c) The ship.
(d) A cemetery.

8. Where is the demon hiding which the being goes to destroy, in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Polaris.
(c) Mars.
(d) Algol.

9. What land is referred to as a land past the pillars that no man has ever seen, in "The White Ship"?
(a) Thalarian.
(b) Xura.
(c) Sona-Nyl.
(d) Cathuria.

10. The sailor in "Dagon"concluded it would be safest to explore the island when?
(a) At night.
(b) In the day.
(c) In the evening.
(d) In the morning.

11. When was the story "Polaris" written?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1918.

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

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

14. What did the sailor in "Dagon" eventually become addicted to?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Morphine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. 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"?

3. Where does the narrator first sail, in "The White Ship"?

4. What is the narrator's job in the dream-land, in "Polaris"?

5. What is the narrator to do if the Inutos gain the upper hand in the battle, in "Polaris"?

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